A Collection Of Graduation Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.”
– M. H. Abrams

“I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.”
– Marc Garneau

“Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.”
– Marian Wright Edelman

“I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.”
– Mark Kennedy

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
– Mark Twain

In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.”
– Mark Twain

“The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.”
– Maya Angelou

“For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.”
– Miguel de Cervantes

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
– Milton Berle

“You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.”
– Neil Simon

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela

“My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section. –
– Norm Crosby

“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.”
– Norman Cousins

“There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.”
– Orrin Hatch

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that’s what I studied in college. That’s what I always wanted to do.”
– Parker Stevenson

“For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.”
– Patrick J. Kennedy

“At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.”
– Paul Freund

“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.”
– Pearl S. Buck

“I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I’d be a lousy businessman, and if I didn’t give acting a try I’d regret it for the rest of my life.”
– Peter Gallagher

“You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom.”
– Proverb

“Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.”
– R. Lee Ermey

“We had times in ’66 and ’67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!”
– R. Lee Ermey

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.”
– Richard Halliburton

“I’m not impressed by someone’s degree… I’m impressed by them making movies.”
– Richard King

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