| "Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn | | | | have wishes."-- Washington Irving"The fireworks |
| some honors! "-- Louisa May Alcott"Your schooling | | | | begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each |
| may be over, but remember that your education | | | | one of you is a fuse."-- Ed Koch"The trouble with |
| still continues."-- Anonymous"The purpose of a | | | | learning from experience is that you never |
| liberal education is to make you philosophical | | | | graduate."-- Doug Larson"Don't ever dare to take |
| enough to accept the fact that you will never | | | | your college as a matter of course~because, like |
| make much money."-- Anonymous"The young | | | | democracy and freedom, many people you'll |
| graduate is discovering that among the | | | | never know have broken their hearts to get it |
| necessaries of life, the most important is living."-- | | | | for you. "-- Alice Drue Miller"To the uneducated, an |
| Anonymous"There is no need to reach high for | | | | A is just three sticks."-- A. A. Milne"A graduation |
| the stars. They are already within you - just | | | | ceremony is an event where the commencement |
| reach deep into yourself!"-- Anonymous"Sooner or | | | | speaker tells thousands of students dressed in |
| later we all discover that the important moments | | | | identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the |
| in life are not the advertised ones, not the | | | | key to success."-- Robert Orben"Graduation is |
| birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the | | | | only a concept. In real life every day you |
| great goals achieved. The real milestones are less | | | | graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on |
| prepossessing. They come to the door of | | | | until the last day of your life. If you can grasp |
| memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, | | | | that , you'll make a difference."-- Arie |
| sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our | | | | Pencovici"The direction in which education starts a |
| lives are measured by these."-- Susan B. | | | | man will determine his future. "-- Plato"A |
| Anthony"Graduation day is tough for adults. They | | | | graduation ceremony is an event where the |
| go to the ceremony as parents. They come | | | | commencement speaker tells thousands of |
| home as contemporaries. After twenty-two | | | | students dressed in identical caps and gowns that |
| years of child-raising, they are unemployed."-- | | | | 'individuality' is the key to success."-- Robert |
| Erma Bombeck"You are educated. Your | | | | Purvis"We know what we are, but know not |
| certification is in your degree. You may think of it | | | | what we may be."-- Shakespeare"Some men see |
| as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to | | | | things as they are and ask why. Others dream |
| think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket | | | | things that never were and ask why not."-- |
| to change the world."-- Tom Brokaw"People will | | | | George Bernard Shaw"A fellow told me he was |
| frighten you about a graduation....They use words | | | | going to hang-glider school. He said, 'I've been |
| you don't hear often... 'And we wish you | | | | going for three months.' I said, 'How many |
| Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you | | | | successful jumps do you need to make before |
| are no longer welcome here at these prices."-- Bill | | | | you graduate?' He said, 'All of them.'"-- Red |
| Cosby"A great many college graduates come | | | | Skeleton"At my graduation, I thought we had to |
| here thinking of lawyers as social engineers | | | | marry what we wished to become. Now you are |
| arguing the great Constitutional issues."-- Archibald | | | | becoming the men you once would have wished |
| Cox"The function of the university is not simply | | | | to marry."-- Gloria Steinem"I have learned this at |
| to teach bread winning, or to furnish teachers for | | | | least by my experiment; that if one advances |
| the public schools or to be a centre of polite | | | | confidently in the direction of his dream, and |
| society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that | | | | endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, |
| fine adjustment between life and the growing | | | | he will meet with a success unexpected in |
| knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the | | | | common hours. "-- Henry David Thoreau"Go |
| secret of civilization. "-- W.E.B. Du Bois"The things | | | | confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live |
| taught in schools and colleges are not an | | | | the life you have imagined."-- Henry David |
| education, but the means of education. "-- Ralph | | | | Thoreau"'These are days you'll remember.' If you |
| Waldo Emerson"The advantage of a classical | | | | recall nothing else from your graduation |
| education is that it enables you to despise the | | | | ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey |
| wealth that it prevents you from achieving."-- | | | | Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs."-- Christine |
| Russell Green"A college education is not a | | | | Todd, NJ governor"Commencement speeches |
| quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted | | | | were invented largely in the belief that outgoing |
| away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a | | | | college students should never be released into the |
| taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to | | | | world until they have been properly sedated."-- |
| explore, to question to perceive relationships, | | | | Garry Trudeau"A milestone passed, new things |
| between fields of knowledge and experience. "-- | | | | begun, dreams as shining as the sun, a goal |
| A. Whitney Griswold"The whole purpose of | | | | achieved, a victory won! That's Graduation!"-- |
| education is to turn mirrors into windows."-- | | | | Unknown"It is indeed ironic that we spend our |
| Sydney Harris"There is a good reason they call | | | | school days yearning to graduate and our |
| these ceremonies "commencement exercises." | | | | remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school |
| Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning."-- | | | | days. |
| Orrin Hatch"Great minds have purposes, others | | | | |