I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation. Votes: 4
Will McDonoughI love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them. Votes: 3
Bruce Eric KaplanSome are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift. Votes: 3
Robin WilliamsPeople will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... Votes: 3
Bill CosbyBoredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent. Votes: 3
Amanda RipleyI was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement. Votes: 3
Ayelet WaldmanA few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick. Votes: 3
Moira KellyThe longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow. Votes: 3
George H. W. BushYou might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty. Votes: 3
Jeff FoxworthyYou might be a redneck if you think people that send out graduation announcements are show-offs. Votes: 3
Jeff FoxworthyEducation no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education. Votes: 3
William J. ClintonI fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. Votes: 3
Olivia WildeIt is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree. Votes: 2
Bobby ScottAlways be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Votes: 2
Judy GarlandDon't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Votes: 2
Robert Louis StevensonMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Votes: 2
Andre GideThings turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. Votes: 2
John WoodenIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Votes: 2
AristotleThe most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. Votes: 2
Arnold PalmerThe two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Votes: 2
Mark TwainThe most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day. Votes: 0
Harry WongGraduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself. Votes: 0
Quentin BryceI received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it. Votes: 1 Tim O'Brien
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. Votes: 3 Lee Pace
I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year. Votes: 1 R. Lee Ermey
From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world. Votes: 1 Dick Cheney
My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations. Votes: 3 Bobby Moynihan
The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry. Votes: 3 Nina Easton
My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master's degree. I'm glad I didn't know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time, money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day. Votes: 1 Regina Brett
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. Votes: 1 H. G. Wells
When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over. Votes: 3 Katie Couric
People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song. Votes: 1 Janelle Monae
I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation. Votes: 1 Dianna Agron
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease. Votes: 1 Bernie Siegel
For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early. Votes: 1 Alexa Von Tobel
I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. Votes: 1 Olivia Wilde
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. Votes: 1 Robert Orben
No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are. Votes: 1 Taylor Mali
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. Votes: 1 Robert Orben
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. Votes: 5 Robert Orben
I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen. Votes: 5 Junior Seau
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. Votes: 1 Dennis Washington
The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry. Votes: 1 Nina Easton
I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it. Votes: 5 Tim O'Brien
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. Votes: 1 David Lee
From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world. Votes: 3 Dick Cheney
I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it. Votes: 3 Jill Scott
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. Votes: 3 Harold E. Varmus
I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation. Votes: 3 Tommy Caldwell
My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations. Votes: 3 Bobby Moynihan
My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations. Votes: 1 Bobby Moynihan
From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world. Votes: 3 Dick Cheney
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.' Votes: 1 Chance The Rapper
High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability. Votes: 1 Ben Bernanke
Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record. Votes: 3 Isaac Slade
I have a 4-year-old and a 14-year-old, and think I missed a recital and a graduation, and they were like 'It's OK mommy, we'll take pictures.' It was my upset, though... they were just fine! I just give them a kiss and a hug and let them know that I love them every day. Votes: 1 Kimberly Quinn
I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them. Votes: 4 Bruce Eric Kaplan
I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them. Votes: 3 Bruce Eric Kaplan
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. Votes: 1 Harold E. Varmus
I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation. Votes: 1 Tommy Caldwell
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. Votes: 5 Maureen Forrester
I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some jobs, but it didn't work out. I wanted to cut my teeth in professional theater, so I came back to New York. It made my journey a longer one, but I really wanted to excel in the theater. Votes: 1 Pedro Pascal
For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early. Votes: 1 Alexa Von Tobel
It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor. Votes: 4 James D'arcy
I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player. Votes: 1 Tim Duncan
When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her. Votes: 1 Sheryl Sandberg
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. Votes: 7 Martha Reeves
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. Votes: 1 Patina Miller
I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out. Votes: 3 Hamilton Jordan
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. Votes: 1 Robert Orben
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. Votes: 1 Robert Orben
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. Votes: 1 Robert Orben
I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian. Votes: 1 Mallory Ortberg