Top 343 Graduation Commencement Quotes & Sayings

I never expected to join the ranks of commencement speakers, especially at my alma mater. I had a tough time there, left eagerly, and returned rarely.

In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing.

To make a commencement requires a mental effort.

Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology.

My favorite commencement addresses are the ones that get real and don't make too many promises.

The stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates spoke and basically at commencement, he told us all that our job after graduation was to get married and have interesting sons...and we all found that hard to believe.

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

I have a good grounding in yoga. I have been doing it from my graduation days.

I have done my post graduation in Business Administration.

And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration.

The first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969.

I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.

I was given a new coat as a high school graduation gift.

Unusual commencement advice: Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.

Commencement Day has a sobering finality in that it's the end of the prescribed path.

I didn't even go to graduation.

I was a radio jockey after graduation. I was 22, the youngest RJ in Delhi at that time.

It's just like when Trump made his speech, his commencement speech at Liberty University, I saw something that I've never seen. ABC News was there, and they're running around asking the parents of students at Liberty University what about Donald Trump they don't like. Are you upset that Trump is here? Do you ever remember any such reporting at an Barack Obama or Michelle Obama commencement? Of course not. And Trump was loved and adored at this thing, and he had some great things to say.

I had never really given any thought to working for the CIA, but graduation was upon me; I was getting married just a week or two after graduation; I had no job, no prospects for a job. And so I said sure, I'd be interested in working for the CIA.

Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members.

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.

In the school of the woods, there is no graduation day.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]

I dropped out of college before graduation. I opted to begin work as an actress.

I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

I hope this will find you...enjoying the commencement of a new year with every prospect that can make it a happy one.

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

Graduation is an important day. It is a significant achievement.

I started with a television serial, 'Just Mohabbat,' when I was in the first year of my graduation.

The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.

I don't remember at all what was said at my college graduation, and I think that's the case for many people.

People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often.

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

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.

Death from this life is just graduation from this grade. It's our release, our graduation, our promotion. School is out! We've finished our schooling in this grade and we pass on to the next grade.

I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the graduation I looked, and 92 percent of those who graduated at the University of Illinois were females. Where can a Black female, who are now the lawyers, the engineers; they are the ones graduating with top degrees; where will they find in a Black male a counterpart that is equal to them? We are filling the jails, we are filling the prisons.

There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

I have studied and graduated out of Delhi. I moved to Mumbai after graduation.

The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging.

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

Death is the Graduation of the Soul

The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly among the spearmen.

I did schooling and graduation from Delhi and then went to the National School of Drama.

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

Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity.

I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

Thirty days after high-school graduation, I went straight into the Marines.