Good Graduation Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

William Penn

#3. To face one who is extraordinary,I cant allow myself to be ordinary

Zoro

#4. You will throughout your life have people who will tell you that you're not good enough. Maybe they're jealous. Maybe they think you aren't. Maybe they've had a bad day. But ultimately you have to believe in yourself.

Meredith Vieira

#5. Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.

Margaret Atwood

#6. Everyone at Coral Tree Prep was good-looking. Really. Everyone. I didn't see a single fat or ugly kid all morning. Maybe they just locked them up at registration and didn't let them out again until graduation.

Claire LaZebnik

#7. Mind is a dark fathomless ocean, and every time I sink into it, this world fades, replaced by one far more terrible and beautiful in which I will happily drown. - New York Times Book Review

Neil Gaiman

#8. You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.

T-Pain

#9. There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Orrin Hatch

#10. For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Plato

#11. I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.

Anne Ellis

#12. I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#13. Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.

Tacitus

#14. 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

#15. You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

Tom Brokaw

#16. People will say you can't do good and do well. They're wrong, that's idiotic advice.

Soledad O'Brien

#17. Simultaneously, in the most complete ambiguity, they [media] propagate the brutal charm of the terrorist act, they are themselves terrorists, insofar as they themselves march to the tune of seduction.

Jean Baudrillard

#18. 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

#19. Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#20. When you have kids, there's no such thing as quality time. There's just time. There's no, 'Ooh, his graduation's better than going to the mall.' It's all kind of equal. Changing her diaper and her winning a contest - it's all good.

Chris Rock

#21. I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice ... if it doesn't lead to a crime

Lisa Kudrow

#22. 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

#23. On the hot, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from college it seemed that good fortune was not merely latent but unavoidable, folded and in the bag.

Geoffrey Wolff

#24. And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let us never forget how good we all once felt here, all together, united by such good and kind feelings as made us, too, ... perhaps better than we actually are.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#25. You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

Jane Lynch

#26. The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.

Shulamith Firestone