Graduation Is Not The End Quotes

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

Orrin Hatch

#2. Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear description that was truly prophetic.

George Dyson

#3. Openness isn't the end; it's the beginning.

Margaret Heffernan

#4. They never opened the door which leads to the soul.

Henry Miller

#5. Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject

Claude C. Hopkins

#6. 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

#7. The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

T. S. Eliot

#8. School is the same as anything else. You do it because you're told to do it when you're little enough to listen. You continue because someone told you it was important. It's like you're a train in a tunnel. Graduation is the light at the end.

A.S. King

#9. We've made tremendous strides and changes in the City of New York since 1994.

Joe Lhota

#10. If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Samuel Johnson

#11. Dreams are the language of God.

Paulo Coelho

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. The formality that is left in the South now is quite dead and done for of course.

Flannery O'Connor

#15. People are not interested in your product or your business; they are interested in solving their own problems.

James Dillehay

#16. I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

Joan Cusack

#17. I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

Lou Holtz

#18. The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.

Baltasar Kormakur

#19. 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

#20. Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit.

Robert Mondavi

#21. What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. Success is the end product.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. My soul hunger for the living bread.

Lailah Gifty Akita