Graduation Quotes

• Upon graduation, I hit a wall. All of my good friends from UCLA were taking on jobs they were passionate about, and I felt left behind. It took a bit of soul searching, but in the end, I finally had the guts to pursue acting.

  

  Karen Fukuhara
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Soul

• Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Day
  • End
  • Motivated

• I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career.

  

  Christie Laing
  • Time
  • Work
  • Believe

• Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.

  

  David Lee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Graduation

• I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Work
  • Done
  • Sorry

• I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Great
  • School
  • Grandmother

• It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Moving

• I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • School
  • High
  • Study

• 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.

  

  Dennis Washington
  • Good
  • School
  • Money

• After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

  

  John Katzman
  • Job
  • Trust
  • Graduation

• Art is definitely a passion of mine, but one that I couldn't afford to keep-up post-graduation, so I turned to DJing to pay the bills.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Up
  • Art
  • Passion

• The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • Up
  • School
  • Job

• I started traveling, performing, doing photo shoots and working on new music. At the same time, I was juggling homework and trying not to miss out on too many experiences during my junior and senior years - like prom and graduation.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• 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'.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Home
  • Door
  • Sorry

• After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Shoes

• 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.'

  

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli
  • Life
  • Up
  • May

• I'm not sure if they do this in the States, but in Korea, until high school, on your graduation diploma there's a line that states your future goal. Kids write 'president' or 'astronaut,' or whatever. I always wrote 'singer.'

  

  G-Dragon
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.'

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • Song
  • Graduation

• 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.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Remember
  • Heard
  • Ceremony

• The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Dialogue

• Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force.

  

  Dennis L. McKiernan
  • School
  • High
  • Air

• On my graduation there was a party by the junior students, and I was given a hair brush as a gift - if I take off my hat, you know what I mean.(laughter)

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Party
  • Hair
  • Laughter

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