Graduation Quotes - Page 4

• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  1625 Essays, no.52,'Of Ceremonies and Respects'.

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• The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

  Louis L'Amour

  Inspiration, Forever, Mind

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Religious

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Class

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Years

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, New York

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, College

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• I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

  Daniel J. Evans

  Inspirational, Funny, Engineering

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• 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

  Football, Children, Reality

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Workout

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Children

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• 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

  Numbers, Years, Four

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 18, 2002.

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

  Erma Bombeck

  Pregnancy, School, Thinking

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• In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

  Ted Nelson

  Inspirational, Funny, School

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• In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Funny, Spiritual

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, The End Of The Day

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Receiving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, School

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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

  Olivia Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Acting

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• Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Passion

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• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Teacher, Money

  New Scientist 21 May 1964

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• Do not follow where the path may lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Travel, Adventure, May

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• A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Senior, Education, Patriotic

  "Art of Communicating Ideas". Book by William Joseph Grace, p. 389, 1952.

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• For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Funny, Learning

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.270, Wordsworth Editions

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• The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

  Doug Larson

  Cute, Experience, Graduates

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