Quotes About Graduations

#1. My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations.

Bobby Moynihan

#2. God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.

Bernie Siegel

#3. Either way, the thought of entire lives lost - family celebrations, Christmases and birthdays, love affairs and bedtime stories, weddings and high school graduations - because of a misfire or unexplained chaos inside a person's brain, made her chest constrict. It wasn't fair.

Ellen Marie Wiseman

#4. 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

#5. By method and discipline are to be understood the marshaling of the army in its proper subdivisions, the graduations of rank among the officers, the maintenance of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the control of military expenditure.

Sun Tzu

#6. I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

Gloria Steinem

#7. Mom somehow made it to every one of my graduations - even when it meant she had to travel far away.

Rick Scott

#8. The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.

Billy Joel

#9. Most of all, I love graduations. They are individual and communal, an end and a beginning, more permanent than weddings, more inclusive than religions, and possibly the most moving ceremonies on earth.

Gloria Steinem

#10. Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real

Billy Joel

#11. We always had the greatest arguments over sex and fishing.

Douglas Adams

#12. We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.

Peter Forsyth

#13. The Intelligent Design movement starts with the recognition that "In the beginning was the Word," and "In the beginning God created." Establishing that point isn't enough, but it is absolutely essential to the rest of the gospel message.

Phillip E. Johnson

#14. The most fundamental change in people at this time was a weakening of their sense of individual identity; their sense of fate grew correspondingly stronger.

Vasily Grossman

#15. It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.

Sun Tzu

#16. The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity underscores the gravity of their circumstances and fortifies my commitment to America's responsibility as their ally.

Pete Hegseth

#17. Everybody can make a choice to be more positive. It's about who you hang around and what you choose to watch on TV. What environment you put yourself in. It's easy to get a negative internal dialogue. You have to be aware of what's playing in your mind.

Victoria Osteen

#18. I love competing. I am so competitive. I definitely need to win because I hate losing. I am the type who if I know I will lose I won't compete.

Usain Bolt

#19. Sticks and stones may break my bones
When aimed with careful art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart

Na

#20. Sometimes you have to suck it up and call a number.

Darrell Royal

#21. I guess I can't stand seeing people being hurt. Being trampled around.

Syud

#22. When I started to focus on all the beauty all around me, my whole world became amazingly beautiful.

Debasish Mridha

#23. As Boettner so aptly observes, for the Calvinist, the atonement "is like a narrow bridge which goes all the way across the stream; for the Arminian it is like a great wide bridge that goes only half-way across." p. 41

David N. Steele