348 Quotes About Graduation

I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.

Diplomas are ill-purposed. What should be celebrated is not the culmination of twelve years sitting in a school desk; what an 18-year-old should be recognized for is making it through young adulthood without getting herself killed.

Everything's always ending. But everything's always beginning, too

Success is the end product.

Empires rose and fell, and still the speaker droned on in his cicada-like monotony...

When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?

And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let us never forget how good we all once felt here, all together, united by such good and kind feelings as made us, too,...perhaps better than we actually are.

The last days before graduation are bad enough, God knows--out of the womb you go, ready or not. The halls rang with the laughter of the girls who were going to be brides in the next week (and widows shortly after)...

This is your last day at Eastwood.”“I know,” she said sadly.“Are you going to miss it?”“Of course!” Marisol turned to face me in shock. “What type of question is that?”A bad one, I decided, and resolved to keep my mouth shut the rest of the day and just enjoy the bitter sweetness of it all.