Graduation Quotes

 

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas     but for scars.|Elbert Hubbard

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.|Plato

I learned law so well            the day I graduated I sued the college      won the case and got my tuition back.|Fred Allen

God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations  but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process   and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all       suffering will cease.|Bernie Siegel

We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.|Carol Burnett

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!|Henny Youngman

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.|Erma Bombeck

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

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

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once            and that’s it. You’re going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that’s deep   deep    deep in there. Every step of the way.|Andrew Shue

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

So in my uncertainty           I went to graduate school and there it all happened.|Ted Nelson

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?|Bobby Heenan

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

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.|Anne Lamott

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

For many       graduation marks the end of formal student life – the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.|Alexa Von Tobel

I graduated a the top of my class in the ’84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.|Scott Hamilton

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

You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No            that’s wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope        that’s worse. This is a day.|Andy Samberg

Remember     half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.|Al McGuire

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars he or she should learn something about fieldwork   something about bibliography      something about how to carry out library research    and something about how to publish that research.|Alan Dundes

I did graduate with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1948.|Daniel J. Evans

In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely drinking beer            cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That’s when I started to be interested in girls.|Ed O’Neill

One half who graduate from college never read another book.|G. M. Trevelyan

When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn’t believe I was at.|Lena Dunham

It is virtually impossible to compete in today’s global economy without a college degree.|Bobby Scott

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

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

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

Everybody wants you to do good things   but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry have children and go to their football games.|Faith Hill

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

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School  and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.|Simon Newcomb

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

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.’|Alex Guarnaschelli

After graduating in the summer of 1980   I knew I wanted my life to count.|Donna Rice

It’s very interesting  if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009            they determined that if Americans do three things         they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work  graduate from high school and get married before you have children.|Rick Santorum

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250     000 in Britain.|Gordon Brown

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

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching      and I do a lot of it.|James Tobin

When I graduated from high school          it was during the Depression and we had no money.|Ray Bradbury

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

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.|Ruby Wax

I have actually five honorary degrees.|Katherine Dunham

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like     I’m sorry       you have to take driver’s ed. I just kind of went            Oh      forget it.|Fiona Apple

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

I did get a degree in special education.|Clay Aiken

You know what has made me the happiest I’ve ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.|Gil Scott-Heron

I was really desperate. I don’t know if you can remember back that far           but when I went to graduate school they didn’t want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn’t mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.|Shannon Lucid

I wrote a novel for my degree        and I’m very happy I didn’t submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.|David Eddings

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity – sort of… I haven’t graduated yet. I’m not legitimately educated yet but maybe one day.|Claire Danes

Earlier today Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system         calling it disastrous. Arnold says California’s schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.|Conan O’Brien

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

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.’|Francis Ford Coppola

I went to college at the University of Kansas       where I got a degree in political science.|Sara Paretsky

Really the potential for       first of all      any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today        particularly African Americans. With a college degree today you really breach the unemployment rate.|Alexis Herman

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927      I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn’t realize it would take so long.|Gloria Stuart

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years and I felt the pressure of being a little behind – although I was just 22.|Daniel J. Evans

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

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

When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation        she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything            and we believed her.|Sheryl Sandberg

In my second year in graduate school       I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.|Ted Nelson

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

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.|Emma Bonino

Yeah   I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.|Douglas Wilson

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

My father       who was from a wealthy family and highly educated    a lawyer        Yale and Columbia       walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother           a seventh grade graduate         who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.|George Weinberg

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.|Christina Aguilera

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.|Mark Kennedy

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

Even though I didn’t get a business degree           I enjoyed learning about economics.|Herb Ritts

I dropped out of school for a semester      transferred to another college        switched to an art major            graduated      got married   and for a while worked as a graphic designer.|James Green Somerville

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

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

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

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 graduated from the University of Whatever.|Dana Snyder

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

When I was in school          my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master’s and I didn’t do it by missing school.|Angela Bassett

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It’s what you learn    what you think. That’s all that counts.|Maya Lin

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.|Tony Hillerman

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms           staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.|Paul Ryan

I studied at Cathedral School          where a lot of kids go abroad after Class XII. But I was clear that I wanted to be an actress        and thus        even though I got 92% in my board exams         I applied only to Jai Hind College for Mass Communication and got in and completed my graduation.|Kiara Advani

I’ve told my children that when I die         to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me            death is a graduation.|Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I have the cliche ‘struggling actor’ story. I was waiting tables in New York   went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some jobs   but it didn’t work out. I wanted to cut my teeth in professional theater so I came back to New York. It made my journey a longer one           but I really wanted to excel in the theater.|Pedro Pascal

After the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971          primary education was made free. We are now thinking to make education in the public sector free up to graduation level. We are also thinking of providing a light meal at primary and secondary schools in order to increase the student retention level.|Sheikh Hasina

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

At Columbia Law School    my professor of constitutional law and federal courts   Gerald Gunther            was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship           despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation          I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.|Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like         and high school       and graduation.|Stephen Curry

My first college internship was at Sony Pictures Entertainment in Los Angeles. My second internship was at McKinsey & Company as a consultant – that turned into my first job after graduation.|Caroline Ghosn

I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time          I was still a kid            and I couldn’t read the industry very well.|Uday Kiran

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’m not sure if they do this in the States    but in Korea until high school     on your graduation diploma there’s a line that states your future goal. Kids write ‘president’ or ‘astronaut          ‘ or whatever. I always wrote ‘singer.’|G-Dragon

We are living in 1937          and our universities I suggest        are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization   education            graduation    for a century – for several centuries.|H. G. Wells

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.|Taylor Mali

I studied finance and accounting in college          and I worked at a massive accounting firm out of graduation.|Simu Liu

There’s no guarantees in anything you do. But I hope there are many more weekends I can race in my life      and high school graduation you only do once.|Chase Elliott

I did freelance cartooning off and on from college graduation in 1991 through ABC News hiring me in 2003. I did a weekly comic strip for ‘Roll Call’ for about nine years. I sold cartoons and caricatures to ‘The Los Angeles Times’ and ‘The Washington Post.’ I drew as much as I could. It’s really tough to make a living doing it.|Jake Tapper

I was the girl that didn’t go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.|Bebe Rexha

I missed out on a few proms           homecomings           might miss my graduation. I wouldn’t want it any other way… it’s worth it.|Chloe Kim

If someone comes to you with        ‘It’s my kid’s graduation     ‘ you don’t tell them  ‘Sorry you can’t go to that.’ You just don’t do that. You figure out some other way.|Bob Iger

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 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

Every time I attend an FBI graduation for new agents or new analysts at Quantico  a significant number of those graduates are former state and local officers  and I have the privilege of shaking their hands  presenting them with their credentials     and welcoming them to the FBI family.|Christopher A. Wray

One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did       like    a Michael Jackson impersonation as        like    a five year old. I had the suit and blazer          the glove and the fedora     and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I’m sure it was ‘Smooth Criminal.’|Chance The Rapper

After graduation in June of 1984   I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.|Andy Behrman

I was in Mumbai pursuing my graduation in mass media; I was not sure what to do. I tried my hand at a couple of different things. I joined an acting school after that and eventually things fell in place.|Ishita Dutta

From kindergarten to graduation   I went to public schools     and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.|Dick Cheney

High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations higher graduation rates       and greater neighborhood stability.|Ben Bernanke

After graduation       I discovered that I’d hit the limit of what I could learn from the women in my family. On top of that          in the workforce      all of the things that mattered in college suddenly weren’t enough.|Caroline Ghosn

After completing my graduation    I went to Mumbai and started working as an assistant casting director. I worked on films like ‘Talaash  ‘ ‘Ek Mai Aur Ekk Tu           ‘ ‘Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani’ and ‘Student Of The Year           ‘ among others.|Varun Sharma

They couldn’t sign me until after I graduated       but right after graduation day        I had nine different organizations there wanting to sign me.|Vernon Law

I was into movies before my graduation results got out. In fact            I was on location of a movie when they came.|Mohanlal

I wrote the screenplay for ‘Water Lilies’ while I was studying screenwriting at La Femis film school in Paris   and the director Xavier Beauvois who was on the graduation committee     told me I had to make the film myself.|Celine Sciamma

I’ve done photo shoots for fashion brand catalogues and participated in graduation shows for fashion colleges.|HoYeon Jung

I went to Legoland in Denmark when I was five I think           but I went to Germany when I was 17 to have a little adventure after graduation.|Jens Lekman

I got a lot of very bad hate on social media from some people from my school. I think people thought I changed because they saw me on TV. They weren’t close enough to know that I was still the same human being… When I walked at graduation       I got booed. It was kind of stupid.|Melanie Martinez

When I was growing up      we were in a high income bracket one of the highest. I was one of the first in high school to get a car. And I didn’t have to wait for it to be a graduation present          either. We’ve probably got one of the nicest houses in Sacramento.|Barbi Benton

Simple health interventions such as lead paint abatement and home visiting for pregnant women result in not only improved health for children but also higher rates of graduation  reduced crime          and a more robust workforce.|Leana S. Wen

I have a 4-year-old and a 14-year-old       and think I missed a recital and a graduation      and they were like ‘It’s OK mommy  we’ll take pictures.’ It was my upset         though… they were just fine! I just give them a kiss and a hug and let them know that I love them every day.|Kimberly Quinn

Bullying is something every kid in public parochial      or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate    it is part of growing up.|Pat Buchanan

I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle’s home in Tokyo. During the high school years  I developed an interest in chemistry         so upon graduation I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto  the old capital of Japan.|Susumu Tonegawa

My roots are in music. But Eileen Ford saw my high school graduation picture       and next thing I knew I was on a plane to New York. That’s what threw a monkey wrench in it. The modeling.|Bebe Buell

Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates.|Tony Cardenas

Mentors provide professional networks   outlets for frustration          college and career counseling            general life advice   and most importantly         an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.|Gerald Chertavian

What I like about graduation speeches is that they’re an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It’s like a sanctioned self-help moment.|Bruce Eric Kaplan

I did my graduation in hospitality in Jaipur. When I was working       I started getting offers in modeling and did a few South films.|Jasmin Bhasin

My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master’s degree. I’m glad I didn’t know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time       money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day.|Regina Brett

All of us have to win games. Whether we like it or not  the graduation rates and all the things people are talking about aren’t as important as winning.|Mack Brown

It’s my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China      you have to do two years of martial arts’ training without which you cannot get a graduation degree.|Akshay Kumar

I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and worked on solar energy after graduation.|Frances Arnold

Graduation is an important day. It is a significant achievement.|Stephanie Ruhle

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

I was on the yearbook staff so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.|Dianna Agron

I have a good cry once in a while; it’s such a great release. Or it could be a cry of joy – watching your child being born or your child walking across a graduation stage.|Raheem DeVaughn

Upon graduation      I hit a wall. All of my good friends from UCLA were taking on jobs they were passionate about       and I felt left behind. It took a bit of soul searching      but in the end           I finally had the guts to pursue acting.|Karen Fukuhara

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan – it was a graduation requirement.|Ayelet Waldman

After graduation       I wanted to work for ‘Sassy’           which I loved           but it had folded. So I wound up at ‘Seventeen’ for three years on staff and two as a contributor      and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes ‘Seventeen’ does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues – gun control migrant farm workers.|Gayle Forman

Following graduation from Amherst         a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.|Harold E. Varmus

I loved school           was an exceptional student and found a passion for math and science that led me to Vanderbilt University     where I discovered the world of electrical engineering. I did well in college            loved the work I was doing            and soon found myself climbing the corporate ladder after graduation. I was one of the lucky ones.|Kimberly Bryant

I studied journalism at Binghamton University   even interning for NBC’s longtime anchor Carol Jenkins. Before graduation I told my parents I wanted to pursue broadcast journalism.|Sunny Hostin

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I’d become an actor.|James D’arcy

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

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

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

I went to my son’s graduation this weekend         and I heard a great quote I’ve never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it’s the good people who don’t speak out.|Hamilton Jordan

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

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.|Will McDonough

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

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

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

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

I’ll co-host ‘TODAY’ from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening’s graduation ceremony. I’m still touching up my remarks            but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers.|Lester Holt

After graduation       I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don’t think I was there more than a month.|John Katzman

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson’s graduation from a school that has my name on it.|Jill Scott

I’ve always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation     I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice            shape and height      I was playing 40-year-old         50-year-old roles at the age of 23.|David Suchet

At graduation I assumed I’d be in publishing       but first I went to England and got a master’s degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs       the way one does.|Joseph Kanon

Right after graduation         I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt   an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut         Tennessee     and Washington      D.C.   raising our children Christopher   Tom   and Lucy.|Natalie Babbitt

I applied to only one college – the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania – and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation    I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.|Karen Finerman

Upon graduation      believe it or not        I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have           I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.|Gary Cohn

Following graduation from high school in 1948 I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town            I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.|David Lee

Just after graduation in 1966          like many of my contemporaries  I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet           Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory         despite my lack of scientific credentials.|Harold E. Varmus

The day after my high school graduation in 1952           I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment  then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.|Dennis Washington

After graduation       I was floundering in L.A.   doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.|Kevin Spacey

I didn’t even go to graduation.|Brendon Urie

Almost 50 years old now     some 30 years after graduation     I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.|Sandra Tsing Loh

I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.|Daniel Mallory Ortberg

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.|Tim O’Brien

The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals          then send them off on graduation day to ‘shape the culture and take back the nation         ‘ in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry.|Nina Easton

I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.|Bruce Eric Kaplan

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.|Bruce Eric Kaplan

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean        I graduated   but I wasn’t even there for my own graduation.|Tommy Caldwell

Adults tell students that it gets better        that the world changes after school          that being ‘different’ will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.|Alexandra Robbins

My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington D.C.   where I met and married my wife Dolores Celini.|Oliver E. Williamson

I decided to move out of the apartment I was sharing with my best friend before graduation and move back home. My parents had recently separated   and I wanted to move back home with my mom and my siblings.|Katherine Schwarzenegger

When I was in college         my graduation thesis was called ‘Female Directors.’ I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.|Patricia Riggen

It’s not how much you spend          it’s how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada    and it’s gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.|Brian Sandoval

I had the luxury of skipping the cabinet meeting to attend my daughter’s graduation. So many people don’t have the luxury of taking an hour away from the workplace to attend indispensable family commitments. We have to change that dynamic.|Tom Perez

While we should certainly be investing in our own STEM education we should take advantage of the thousands of international students who come here to study and are ready to fill these gaps immediately upon graduation.|Brad Feld

At a very young age my beloved mother passed away from leukemia            forcing my father to become a single dad. Rather than coddle me        shelter me     or do things for me  he taught me to ‘Make the Case’ for everything in life – from my first job to a graduation trip I wanted.|Kimberly Guilfoyle

We had an argument and he told me to be home at midnight    and I said no. And so when I did come home  the door was locked. And I had gotten a set of luggage for graduation that day        and it was on the front porch     packed. He thought that he was going to prove a point and I was going to say            ‘Oh     I’m sorry       Daddy           I’m sorry’.|Delilah

To serve in the modern military – or to be the uncle       parent or sibling of one who does – is to treat the necessary service and sacrifice of war with a sacred honor. In my community    we pile into cars and drive hundreds of miles to watch our children’s graduation from basic training.|J. D. Vance

I started traveling     performing   doing photo shoots and working on new music. At the same time            I was juggling homework and trying not to miss out on too many experiences during my junior and senior years – like prom and graduation.|Daya

The federal government requires that its loans be paid back within 10 years of graduation and Harvard has pegged its loans to the same 10-year timetable. Yet despite Harvard’s low default rate            the idea of years of loan debt is daunting for some students even before it’s time to pay back.|David Fahrenthold

After graduation       I moved to Los Angeles to do more theater        not realizing there is very little theater in L.A. It was a lucky mistake       though           because after just 2 1/2 months of waiting tables  my TV and film career really took off.|Nicholas Gonzalez

School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates          greater employability         higher earnings         and decreased rates of incarceration.|Clint Smith

I was full of pride when President Obama talked about coding in his last State of the Union address. I was proud when Chicago recently made computer science mandatory as a requirement for graduation. To see this elevate to the level of a bigger conversation is progress.|Reshma Saujani

I had spent four months in Cedar City       Utah   right after graduation as an intern at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. It’s a town that has many people living the polygamous lifestyle.|Stephen Karam

I was given a new coat as a high school graduation gift.|Maya Hawke

My graduation was an amazing moment for my family my community. In my early childhood   we lived on a subsidized income         with government assistance – at one point when I was growing up            my mother was making $14          000 a year. Now I had made it out of the hood    so to speak.|Lecrae

I quit drinking in 2002         mere months before my college graduation.|Chris Gethard

I always thought I would move to New York after graduation but     instead          I moved to Los Angeles. I realized I was more scared of that choice than I was of New York            and I thought            at 22  I should get it over with.|Rory O’Malley

Thirty days after high-school graduation I went straight into the Marines.|Nate Dogg

The only thing urban about me is the parties. I have almost always been a suburbanite. I got a car for my graduation. I want to have a manicured lawn and have my son go to a good college.|Wendy Williams

I was a radio jockey after graduation. I was 22    the youngest RJ in Delhi at that time.|Ayushmann Khurrana

There were a couple of months when I was approaching graduation where I started to think of graduating from college as the afterlife. Because it’s this kind of crazy thing that you always know you’re going to finish school inevitably    but nobody ever really tells you what happens afterwards.|Maggie Rogers

After I did my graduation in mechanical engineering    I got a scholarship to go to the U.S. to do my master’s. So I did that. I also worked there for a while. After my master’s      I did a course in Film Appreciation.|Karthi

Post my graduation  I really thought that acting was something I wanted to do. I simply took a chance and started auditioning        and I loved it.|Mithila Palkar

I don’t remember at all what was said at my college graduation           and I think that’s the case for many people.|Stephanie Ruhle

I would say the most memorable thing that has ever happened to me has to be when I got my First class honours Law degree at my University graduation. All my family from all over the world were there when I collected my degree. I will never forget that day.|Eniola Aluko

By the time he arrived in Texas – via the red 1947 Studebaker Dad’s parents gave him as a graduation gift – he was ready for the challenge of making his way in the oil business.|Dorothy Bush Koch

I would like to be coaching in the right situation if it’s a team effort and doesn’t have a bunch of mini-agendas. I want something where the school wants to win and values graduation and everybody wants to work together.|Mike Leach

When I was at Tech no public school was ahead of us in graduation rates. We got our guys to compete in the classroom       and if they’re competing in class and in football that’s an attitude they take into life.|Mike Leach

No one has ever asked me to give a graduation speech. But in my years of working with aspiring entrepreneurs many of them in college     I’ve gotten used to giving advice.|Marc Randolph

I dropped out of college before graduation. I opted to begin work as an actress.|Sharmila Tagore

When I came to Chennai from Coimbatore after my graduation          looking for acting chances it was for dubbing that I was first tried.|Nizhalgal Ravi

I have studied and graduated out of Delhi. I moved to Mumbai after graduation.|Angad Bedi

I have a good grounding in yoga. I have been doing it from my graduation days.|Vishwajeet Pradhan

From daycare to graduation our education system stacks the odds against the poor. Predicted grades is just one of many hurdles that are set a little higher for those whose parents do not have the money to smooth their path in life or the inside knowledge of how the system works.|David Olusoga

You know when I was a high school student I wasn’t a very good student. Upon graduation we were asked if we would become a full working adult or go to university. I decided to go to film school and still to this day I try to avoid being a full working adult.|Takashi Miike

School days were very special to me as I never found the time to complete my graduation.|Pankaj Kapur

I am a Punjabi at heart         but I’ve been born & brought up in Mumbai and even did my schooling & graduation from Mumbai itself.|Sunny Singh

I did schooling and graduation from Delhi and then went to the National School of Drama.|Alok Nath

After my graduation from Sydenham College with a degree in Commerce    I was spotted by late Sunil Dutt      my idol         to act in films.|Vinod Khanna

I started with a television serial     ‘Just Mohabbat        ‘ when I was in the first year of my graduation.|Vatsal Sheth

I have done my post graduation in Business Administration.|Kiku Sharda

I vividly remember my first meeting with Farooque Shaikh. It was in 1975. I had just returned from New York after completing my graduation and was looking for opportunities to begin a career as an actor.|Deepti Naval

YA fiction tends to have a finite quality. You’re looking toward a goal – prom or graduation or revolution – and we leave these characters after a moment of tremendous transformation.|Leigh Bardugo