College Graduation Quotes - Page 3

• I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

  George Foreman

  Graduation, School, Sleep

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• God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Sad, God

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?

  Bill Cosby

  Graduation, Dream, College

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• Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

  Stephen Colbert

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

  "Top 10 Commencement Speeches: Best of All Time" by Meena Jang, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 8, 2015.

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• Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

  Eric Idle

  Inspirational, Graduation, Simple

  "17 Funniest Lines from Monty Python Star Eric Idle’s Commencement Speech" By Gillian Frew, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2013.

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• If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

  Ben Bernanke

  Graduation, Dirty, Games

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• You'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Graduation, Trying, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.

  Paul Krugman

  Country, Unique, Reality

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