Funny Or Inspirational Graduation Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.”
– Emma Bonino

“Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.”
– Faith Hill

“I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I’m sorry, you have to take driver’s ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.”
– Fiona Apple

“When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That’s what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was ‘You’re a Big Boy Now’.”
– Francis Ford Coppola

“The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.”
– Frank Murphy

“I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.”
– Fred Allen

“I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.”
– Frederick Reines

“One half who graduate from college never read another book.”
– G. M. Trevelyan

“My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.”
– George Weinberg

“When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn’t realize it would take so long.”
– Gloria Stuart

“Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.”
– Gordon Brown

“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.”
– H. G. Wells

“I went to my son‘s graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I’ve never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it’s the good people who don’t speak out.”
– Hamilton Jordan

“This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!”
– Henny Youngman

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Even though I didn’t get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.”
– Herb Ritts

“I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.”
– Irvine Welsh

“It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I’d become an actor.”
– James D’Arcy

“I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.”
– James Green Somerville

“I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I’d done theatricals in college, but I’d done them because it was fun.”
– James Stewart

“Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.”
– James Tobin

“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
– James Madison

“People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love ‘We Are Young.’ I’ve heard it play at weddings. I’ve heard it in graduation parties. It’s a big idea and big song.”
– Janelle Monae

“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru

“One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don’t often do them.”
– Jerry Moran

“My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.”
– Jillian Bach

“I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.”
– Jim Clyburn

“My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.”
– Jim Evans

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