Funny Or Inspirational Graduation Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“I didn’t get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.”
– Jim Jarmusch

“In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‘We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles’.”
– Jimmy Carter

“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”
– Jimmy Carter

“Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.”
– Joe Baca

“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.”
– John F. Kennedy

“I don’t look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.”
– John Keegan

“Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be… well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I’ve known for years are all in the industry together.”
– Jon Secada

“Americans in particular are myopic. They’re not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That’s what I did. I went to Indonesia.”
– Julie Taymor

“I’m not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you’ll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain’t going to happen.”
– Junior Seau

“I have actually five honorary degrees.”
– Katherine Dunham

“I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They’re concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we’ve had and our grandparents have had.”
– Ken Buck

“My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.”
– Kenneth G. Wilson

“My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.”
– Kenneth G. Wilson

“At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.”
– Laurie Anderson

“A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.”
– Lee Pace

“It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.”
– Leigh Steinberg

“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

“The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.”
– Martha Reeves

“Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members.”
– Mathew D Staver

“I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn’t even give me one because I didn’t have my high school graduation.”
– Maureen Forrester

“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

“A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.”
– Moira Kelly

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

“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

“I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.”
– Olivia Wilde

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

“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

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