Commencement Addresses Quotes

#1. Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity.

Greg Gutfeld

#2. I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I'm so close to him. He's my big brother, but also my father.

Kyrie Irving

#3. I stopped showering ever since I realized water causes people to drown. I cannot risk being so close to something that can murder me. Do you let killers into your house? Oh, but you let a murderer come out of your own faucet. Hypocrite.

Thom Yorke

#4. Bring the pure wine of
love and freedom.
But sir, a tornado is coming.
More wine, we'll teach this storm
A thing or two about whirling.

Rumi

#5. When I came to New York as a writer, I was taken with the idea that you're only getting in on bridges and ferries and through tunnels. The idea behind 'Takedown' is that it would be very hard to get out.

Brad Thor

#6. The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion

Dean Cavanagh

#7. You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

#8. I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#9. Chauncy made a huge effort to control himself. "I had lunch at Maisie's Diner."
"And?"
"And what? It was the most revolting lunch it has been my misfortune to consume."
"And after?"
"Diarrhea, of course.

Douglas Preston

#10. Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer.

David McCullough Jr.

#11. To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#12. As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

Annie Leibovitz

#13. A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.

J.G. Holland