Top 39 Quotes About Graduation Day
#1. The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.
Harry Wong
#2. Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.
Quentin Bryce
#3. The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry.
Nina Easton
#4. Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.
William J. Clinton
#5. I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.
Junior Seau
#6. In Gadsden County, Florida, for example, students were required to take a total of 242 standardized exams between kindergarten and their high school graduation day, according to a recent study by the conservative Foundation for Excellence in Education.
Anonymous
#7. In the school of the woods, there is no graduation day.
Horace Kephart
#8. My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master's degree. I'm glad I didn't know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time, money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day.
Regina Brett
#9. My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#11. You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.
Andy Samberg
#12. 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
#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. I don't know why you won't even look me in the eye. I don't understand anything you're doing or saying, and it's killing me, because I already don't undestand a single thing about me or Michael or Becky or my brother or anything on this shitty planet.
Alice Oseman
#16. Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual.
Franz Beckenbauer
#17. It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.
Leigh Steinberg
#18. Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything ... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.
Bobbi Brown
#19. No one had ever talked about me that way, like I was so close to perfect the imperfections were washed away. I
Nicole Williams
#20. In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.
Martin Luther
#21. 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
#22. The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.
Mitch Albom
#23. 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
#24. No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
Taylor Mali
#25. I have a 4-year-old and a 14-year-old, and think I missed a recital and a graduation, and they were like 'It's OK mommy, we'll take pictures.' It was my upset, though ... they were just fine! I just give them a kiss and a hug and let them know that I love them every day.
Kimberly Quinn
#26. 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
#28. 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
#29. Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.
Jeff Bridges
#30. We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.
Ernest Holmes
#31. 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
#34. When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?
Aeschylus
#35. Sometimes the 'day' you're dreaming for never comes. Take control of your future and start now.
Auliq Ice
#36. I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
Fred Allen
#37. With success, if you don't plan and just take each day as it comes, there will come failure.
Auliq Ice
#38. The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.
Carly Fiorina
#39. The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
Newton D. Baker
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