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  • Graduation Quote #1

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

    Moira Kelly

  • Graduation Quote #2

    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.

    Robert Orben
  • Graduation Quote #3

    A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

    Lee Pace
  • Graduation Quote #4

    ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

    Robert Sternberg
  • Graduation Quote #5

    Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.

    Alexandra Robbins
  • Graduation Quote #6

    After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

    Donna Rice
  • Graduation Quote #7

    After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.

    Andy Behrman
  • Graduation Quote #8

    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
  • Graduation Quote #9

    After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

    Gayle Forman
  • Graduation Quote #10

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

    Kevin Spacey
  • Graduation Quote #11

    All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

    Patina Miller
  • Graduation Quote #12

    All real education is the architecture of the soul.

    William Bennett
  • Graduation Quote #13

    Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.

    Sandra Tsing Loh
  • Graduation Quote #14

    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.

    Julie Taymor
  • Graduation Quote #15

    At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

    Rita LeviMontalcini
  • Graduation Quote #16

    At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.

    Joseph Kanon
  • Graduation Quote #17

    At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

    Peter Jurasik
  • Graduation Quote #18

    At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

    Laurie Anderson
  • Graduation Quote #19

    Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

    Marian Wright Edelman
  • Graduation Quote #20

    Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

    Joe Baca
  • Graduation Quote #21

    College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

    Ruby Wax
  • Graduation Quote #22

    College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

    Paul Ryan
  • Graduation Quote #23

    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.

    Garry Trudeau
  • Graduation Quote #24

    Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

    Gordon Brown
  • Graduation Quote #25

    Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

    Conan O'Brien
  • Graduation Quote #26

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

    Herb Ritts
  • Graduation Quote #27

    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
  • Graduation Quote #28

    Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

    Faith Hill
  • Graduation Quote #29

    Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

    Clive James
  • Graduation Quote #30

    Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

    Harold E. Varmus

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