Famous Graduation Quotations

"The need is increasing because standards are trickling down, and school is becoming more demanding. Graduation requirements have been increasing. Kindergarten is now what first grade used to be. It's the nature of the technological society in which we live."

by Lisa Crosby

"We lost all but two of our guys to graduation. We made a goal to win region and state, even though it would be an upset if we did."

by Matt Clark

"We recorded that EP with an aspiring sound engineer and played a lot of graduation parties. Surprisingly, we grew the most after I left for Marquette (in fall 2004). We've learned how to play our instruments really well in the past year."

by Jack Jostes

"When you leave here, don't forget why you came."

by Adlai Stevenson

"I'm very happy and proud for them because they've been model citizens. They keep our 100 percent graduation rate intact. But more than anything they're fine people. They're good basketball players, but I'm most proud of the fact that they have helped us move our program forward. Their last home game will be something to remember."

by Leonard Hamilton

"If we know we've got one graduating, we're looking for another one. It's like getting a point guard or a shooter. It's a kid with an edge. You have to have some of that."

by Sherri Coale

"One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar."

by Anonymous

"I was at my nephews graduation from Harvard Business School,"

by Gary Hirshberg

"[Granville had a 100 percent graduation rate for the 2003-2004 school year. Newark had 78.1, while all other county schools exceed 90 percent. The state's graduation rate is 85.9 percent.] We are by no stretch of the imagination happy with a 78 percent (graduation rate), ... The greatest single education issue we have to deal with is our drop-out rate."

by Dan Montgomery

"All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder."

by Source Unknown

"A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success."

by Robert Orben

"50% of the high school graduates in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class."

by Source Unknown

"'These are days you'll remember.' If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs."

by Christine Todd

"Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia."

by Julie Taymor

"At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry."

by Gloria Steinem

"I hope you become confortable with the use of logic wihout being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion."

by Neil Armstrong

"Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.)"

by Muhammad Ali

"People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... 'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."

by Bill Cosby

"I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one."

by Jim Jarmusch