Memorable Graduation Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That’s what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was ‘You’re a Big Boy Now’.”
– Christine Gregoire

“As you leave these gates and re-enter society, one thing is certain. Everyone out there is going to hate you. Never tell anyone in a roadside diner that you went to Harvard. In those situations, the correct response to, ‘Where did you go to school?’ is ‘School? I never had much in the way of book learnin’ and such.’ And then get in your BMW and get the hell out of there.”
– Conan O’Brien

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

“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

“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

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”
– Dr. Seuss

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

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
– E.E. Cummings, 1955

“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.”
– Edward Koch

“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.”
– Edward Koch

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

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Elizabeth Blackwell

“The idea of winning a doctor’s degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.”
– Emma Bonino

“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

“My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.”
– Erma Bombeck

“There is just one life for each of us: our own.”
– Euripides

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

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

“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”
– Frank Murphy

“The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.”
– Fred Dehner

“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

“To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.”
– George W Bush

“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.”
– George Weinberg

“I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals—though I assure you, there is life after graduation.”
– Gloria Steinem

“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

“I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good. ”
– Gordon B. Hinckley

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