More Graduation Quotations And Sayings From Different Persons

by allinspiration.com

“People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love ‘We Are Young.’ I’ve heard it play at weddings. I’ve heard it in graduation parties. It’s a big idea and big song.”
– Janelle Monae

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

“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.”
– Jillian Bach

“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.”
– Jim Clyburn

“My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.”
– Jim Evans

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

“In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‘We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.’”
– Jimmy Carter

“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.”
– Joe Baca

“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.”
– John F. Kennedy

“I don’t look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.”
– John Keegan

“Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be… well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I’ve known for years are all in the industry together.”
– Jon Secada

“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.”
– Julie Taymor

“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.”
– Junior Seau

“I have actually five honorary degrees.”
– Katherine Dunham

“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.”
– Ken Buck

“My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.”
– Kenneth G. Wilson

“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.”
– Kenneth G. Wilson

“Your own hand is the only hand which can hold your bright future. Believe in yourself. ”
– Kurt Avish

“At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.”
– Laurie Anderson

“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.”
– Lee Pace

“It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.”
– Leigh Steinberg

“Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! ”
– Louisa May Alcott

“When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.”
– M. H. Abrams

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

“Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.”
– Marian Wright Edelman

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

“The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.”
– Martha Reeves

“I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn’t even give me one because I didn’t have my high school graduation.”
– Maureen Forrester

“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.”
– Miguel de Cervantes

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

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