Famous Graduation Quotes and Short Sayings

Famous Graduation Quotes and Short Sayings


The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Edward Koch
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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.
Tom Brokaw
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Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference.
Arie Pencovici
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
Madonna
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Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
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A number of factors contribute to the sustained demand for rented accommodation in Yorkshire. The burgeoning student population of England’s largest county, with major universities at Sheffield, Hull, Leeds and York, among others, underpin demand for rented properties. Many students, after graduation, remain in the county and as ‘first jobbers’ look for shared accommodation with their friends in the major towns.
An important demographic trend that has sustained the growth of the private rented sector over the past decade or so has been the tendency for young people to leave the family home at a fairly young age to go on to further education and not return. In addition, there has been a net influx of jobs in some parts of Yorkshire which has helped create a requirement for more rented homes.
John Heron
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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
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
W.H. Auden
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The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
Doug Larson
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Study hard, and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog.
George Bush, (41st US president in a speech in 1992, to graduates after learning Millie, his dog, made $889,176 in book royalties.)
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It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days.
Isabel Waxman
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There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
Orrin Hatch
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Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference.
Arie Pencovici
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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
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When you leave here, don't forget why you came.
Adlai Stevenson
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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