Funny Or Inspirational Graduation Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in ‘Sister Act’ and haven’t looked back since.”
– Patina Miller

“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

“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

“At the end of four years’ time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there’s your numbers.”
– Peter Jurasik

“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

“I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day – I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.”
– 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

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

“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”
– Robert M. Hutchins

“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.”
– Robert Orben

“ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they’re getting the business.”
– Robert Sternberg

“Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.”
– Ruben Hinojosa

“While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.”
– Ruben Hinojosa

“College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.”
– Ruby Wax

“Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.”
– Ruth Ann Minner

“I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.”
– Sara Paretsky

“I graduated a the top of my class in the ’84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.”
– Scott Hamilton

“I was really desperate. I don’t know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn’t want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn’t mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.”
– Shannon Lucid

“In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.”
– Simon Newcomb

“Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor’s appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.”
– Sloane Crosley

“Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.”
– T. S. Eliot

“In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.”
– Ted Nelson

“So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.”
– Ted Nelson

“I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.”
– Tim Duncan

“I teach one semester a year, and this year I’m just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.”
– Tobias Wolff

“You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.”
– Tom Brokaw

“The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.”
– Tony Hillerman

“A brand new start, a new beginning, a new life, make it a successful one! Happy Graduation. You have a bright future.”
– Unknown

“Congratulations to you. Just remember, your studies might be over. But, the process of learning will never end. Happy Graduation to you.”
– Unknown

“Congratulations. You are finally a graduate. I’m so proud of you. Happy Graduation buddy.”
– Unknown

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