Quotes About Commencement Exercises

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

Orrin Hatch

#2. Ram-fication of Ravan-ous thoughts is what Dussehra all about.

Vikrmn

#3. Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden ... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.

Kim Gordon

#4. I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

Roy Wood

#5. We are truly one nation, under God, indivisible and that we must remain so in the face of any threat to ensure our country remains strong, united and free.

Michael Enzi

#6. Kingsley kissed the top of Fionn's head. His heart clenched so tightly, his chest hurt. No wonder he'd sought after pain all his life. It felt just like love.

Tiffany Reisz

#7. Now listen to me, Buddy: there is only one unpardonable sin - deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven. That, never.

Truman Capote

#8. If you try to be everywhere at once, you won't be anywhere at all.

Todd Stocker

#9. Work hard on your style, not on your watermarks ...

Thomas Leuthard

#10. The more you come to admire God's wisdom and believe in his love and kindness to each of us, the freer you will be from envying those with more faith and stronger gifts and from feeling superior to those what are weaker than you.

Barbara R. Duguid

#11. I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.

John Mellencamp

#12. It's very important as a beginner that you understand right from the start that meditation is about befriending your thinking, about holding it gently in awareness, no matter what is on your mind in a particular moment. It is not about shutting off your thoughts or changing them in any way.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#13. Your past has not come full circle to its complete redemption until you allow Christ to not only defuse it, but also to use it.

Renee Swope

#14. An artist makes the world her world. An artist makes her world the world. For a little while. For as long as it takes to look at or listen or to watch or read the work of art. Like a crystal, the work of art seems to contain the whole, and to imply eternity.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

Ouida

#16. The radio makes hideous sounds.

Bob Dylan