More Graduation Quotations And Sayings From Different Persons

by allinspiration.com

“A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.”
– Moira Kelly

“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.”
– Neil Simon

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ”
– Nelson Henderson

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

“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.”
– Norman Cousins

“I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.”
– Olivia Wilde

“I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that’s what I studied in college. That’s what I always wanted to do.”
– Parker Stevenson

“Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams. ”
– Patch Adams

“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.”
– Patina Miller

“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.”
– Patrick J. Kennedy

“I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I’d be a lousy businessman, and if I didn’t give acting a try I’d regret it for the rest of my life.”
– Peter Gallagher

“At the end of four years’ time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there’s your numbers.”
– Peter Jurasik

“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.”
– R. Lee Ermey

“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!”
– R. Lee Ermey

“I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day – I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.”
– 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

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you’re picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren’t going to stay in touch after graduation.”
– Renee Olstead

“Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. ”
– Richard Halliburton

“I’m not impressed by someone’s degree… I’m impressed by them making movies.”
– Richard King

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

“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”
– Robert M. Hutchins

“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

“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.”
– Robert Sternberg

“Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. ”
– Roger Babson

“Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.”
– Ruben Hinojosa

“While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.”
– Ruben Hinojosa

“College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.”
– Ruby Wax

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

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