348 Quotes About Graduation



  • Author Garry Trudeau
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    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.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    I have learned this at least by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

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  • Author James Tobin
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    Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

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  • Author John Updike
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    You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

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  • Author Paul Vosburgh
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    When Jason Meyers graduated (after the 2003 season), we wondered who would take over. Mark Robinson stepped up and took it to another level.

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