Graduation proverbs
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- William S. Burroughs99◆ You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.
- Gil Scott-Heron99◆ Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
- Robert Anthony99◆ All real education is the architecture of the soul.
- William Bennett99◆ 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 Orben99◆ God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
- Elbert Hubbard99◆ We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
- Carol Burnett99◆ The doer alone learneth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche99◆ The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
- Martha Reeves99◆ 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 Levi-Montalcini99◆ Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
- T. S. Eliot99◆ 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 Ermey99◆ In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'
- Jimmy Carter99◆ It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
- Bobby Scott99◆ If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
- Alan Dundes99
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