Graduation quotations

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◆ The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

- Elizabeth Blackwell99

◆ Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

- Erma Bombeck99

◆ My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

- George Weinberg99

◆ 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 Hill99

◆ Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

- Sloane Crosley99

◆ It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

- Norman Cousins99

◆ This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

- Henny Youngman99

◆ Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.

- Daniel Greenberg99

◆ For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

- Plato99

◆ For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

- Miguel de Cervantes99

◆ When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

- Christine Gregoire99

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

- Marian Wright Edelman99

◆ I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

- Fred Allen99

◆ The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

- James Madison99

◆ Your graduation is merely the starting point of me watching you get fat and bald on Facebook.

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