Top 1200 Graduation Day Quotes & Sayings

You know when I was a high school student I wasn't a very good student. Upon graduation we were asked if we would become a full working adult or go to university. I decided to go to film school and still to this day I try to avoid being a full working adult.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can't imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

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.

I exclusively attended public school... And I can honestly say that on the day of my graduation, if you had given me a pop quiz on history, science, or math, I would have in no way been able to pass it - despite the fact that I completely understood it at the time that it had been 'taught' to me, and had even made a good 'grade' on it.

I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I wanted to make films. I was glad when I was graduated. Yet it's odd; on graduation day, I was overcome with a terrible sadness. I realized that my youth was over and now the struggle had begun.

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.

I have done my post graduation in Business Administration.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

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

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

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

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.

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

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

I would say the most memorable thing that has ever happened to me has to be when I got my First class honours Law degree at my University graduation. All my family from all over the world were there when I collected my degree. I will never forget that day.

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

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

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

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.

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

You might be a redneck if you think people that send out graduation announcements are show-offs.

Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.

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

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.

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

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.

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.

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.

I was into movies before my graduation results got out. In fact, I was on location of a movie when they came.

They couldn't sign me until after I graduated, but right after graduation day, I had nine different organizations there wanting to sign me.

I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again." So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].

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

I didn't even go to graduation.

We had an argument, and he told me to be home at midnight, and I said no. And so when I did come home, the door was locked. And I had gotten a set of luggage for graduation that day, and it was on the front porch, packed. He thought that he was going to prove a point and I was going to say, 'Oh, I'm sorry, Daddy, I'm sorry'.

I went to Legoland in Denmark when I was five, I think, but I went to Germany when I was 17 to have a little adventure after graduation.

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

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

I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and worked on solar energy after graduation.

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

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

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

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

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.

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

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

I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.

I started training at a local gym in New Jersey, and the day of my high school graduation, I packed up everything in my car and moved to Coconut Creek, Florida, where I trained with one of the best gyms in the world, American Top Team.

Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record.

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

Every single day since Day 1, to Day 2, to Day 3, to Day 4, to Day 5, to Day 6, to Day 7 to Day 8, whatever day it is now, I've gotten better.

Death is the Graduation of the Soul

Humor can be a great way to lift spirits and relate with soon-to-be high school grads. Whether you're in need of a funny senior year quote for a card, your yearbook, or a gift, you can use this list of funny graduation quotes by famous leaders and comedians to get inspired. To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.

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.

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.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

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.

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