Top 100+ Graduation Quotes

The college graduate is presented with

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Robert M. Hutchins

I think young writers should get

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

Irvine Welsh

A graduation ceremony is an event

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

At the School of Visual Arts

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

The economy in the Valley will

The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.

Frank Murphy

One half who graduate from college

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

G. M. Trevelyan

I have the loving support of

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.

Tim Duncan

I teach one semester a year

I teach one semester a year, and this year I’m just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

Tobias Wolff

When nearly a third of our

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.

Christine Gregoire

If you’re picking your best

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

All my graduation money went to

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

I could be happy doing something

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

Even though I didn’t get

Even though I didn’t get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

Herb Ritts

I fell in love with theater

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

Olivia Wilde

I woke up on May 15

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, ‘By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.’

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I first became interested in women

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960’s.

Carol P. Christ

Our promise to our children should

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

Even though I disagree with many

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

Some go on to trade schools

Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.

Daniel Greenberg

ACT and SAT each have their

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
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