Graduation Quotes - Page 16

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime

I have actually five honorary degrees.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.

Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. ... You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.

It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.

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

The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

We design our lives through the power of choices.