Ideas For Graduation Verses

by allinspiration.com

“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.”
– David Eddings

“Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
– David Lloyd George

“I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.”
– Dianna Agron

“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.”
– Dick Cheney

“The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.”
– Doug Larson

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

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
– Dr. Seuss

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
– E.E. Cummings

“In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.”
– Ed O’Neill

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
– Edmund Hillary

“From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“What we are is God‘s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.”
– Eleanor Powell

“It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I’d become an actor.”
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“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

“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.”
– Faith Hill

“I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960′s.”
– Fiona Apple

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
– Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625

“When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.”
– Francis Ford Coppola

“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.”
– Fred Allen

“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 $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.”
– Frederick Reines

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
– Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel

“Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.”
– Garry Trudeau

“Your families are extremely proud of you. You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.”
– Gary Bolding

“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!”
– Gloria Stuart

“College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.”
– Gordon Brown

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

“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”
– Harold Geneen

“Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California’s schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.”
– Herb Ritts

“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.”
– Irvine Welsh

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