Ideas For Graduation Verses

by allinspiration.com

“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.”
– Robert Sternberg

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

“When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.”
– Ruben Hinojosa

“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.”
– Ruby Wax

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

“I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.”
– Sara Paretsky

“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.”
– Scott Hamilton

“I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.”
– Shannon Lucid

“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.”
– Simon Newcomb

“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.”
– Ted Nelson

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“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.”
– Tim Duncan

“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.”
– Tobias Wolff

“Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.”
– Tom Brokaw

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
– Unknown

“North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?”
– Unknown

“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”
– Unknown

“You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.”
– Unknown

“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
– Vince Lombardi

“A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.”
– W.H. Auden

“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.”
– Walt Disney

“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”
– Wendy Wasserstein

“Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.”
– William Arthur Ward

“Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.”
– William Lyon Phelps

“[I]t is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock.”
– Woody Allen, “My Speech To The Graduates,” Side Effects, 1980

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