Ideas For Graduation Verses

by allinspiration.com

“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.”
– Mark Kennedy

“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.”
– Maureen Forrester

“Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it’s in Hamburger Technology.”
– Miguel De Cervantes

“If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.”
– Milton Berle

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

“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Moira Kelly

“The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.”
– Newton D. Baker

“It is virtually impossible to compete in today’s global economy without a college degree.”
– Norman Cousins

“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.”
– Olivia Wilde

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde, “The Critic As Artist,” 1890

“I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.”
– Parker Stevenson

“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.”
– Patina Miller

“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.”
– 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

“I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan – it was a graduation requirement.”
– Peter Gallagher

“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.”
– Peter Jurasik

“Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
– Philippians 3:13-14

“The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.”
– Psalms 28:7

“Even though I didn’t get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.”
– R. Lee Ermey

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

“We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.”
– R. Lee Ermey

“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
– Ralph Marston

“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
– Ralph W. Sockman

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”
– Richard King

“If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.”
– Robert Goheen, Time, 23 June 1961

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“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

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