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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. By Regina Brett Degree Daughter Finished High School

One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin. By Richard Bach Finished Begin School Time

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. By Robert Orben Individuality Success Graduation Ceremony Event

Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education. By William J. Clinton Day Education Longer Stops Graduation

Graduating at the age of 21 was a wonderful age to hopefully start a career. By Rose Leslie Graduating Career Age Wonderful Start

I'll co-host 'TODAY' from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers. By Lester Holt Today Los Angeles Saturday Merced

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested. By Mitch Albom York City Ready Talent World

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation. By Gloria Steinem Terminally Sentimental Mitzvahs Graduations Weddings

I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude. By Alan Greenspan College Term Sort Shocked Sudden

After graduating college in 2001 with a B. A. in Political Science and Speech Communications from Texas State University - San Marcos, I realized that my generation and those younger had been given no future and had been maliciously robbed of the knowledge of principles and methods necessary for building one. By Kesha Rogers Graduating College University San Marcos

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Die Graduated Told Children Release

I graduated first in my class from alibi school. By Jeffrey Mcdaniel School Graduated Class Alibi

Everybody got to write you - but when you graduated, you got to write yourself. At graduation you got to collect your teacher's pens and your parents' pens and you got your own pen. By Benjamin Alire Saenz Write Graduated Pens Pen Graduation

It is a shock to many college graduates that their segway into the real world is one of obligation, profound debt, and countless sacrifices of the soul. By Chris Matakas Obligation Profound Debt Soul Shock

This column was an attempt to convey to British readers something of the flavor of high-school graduation, a ritual largely unknown across the Atlantic and one at odds with the basic organizing principle of English education: The continual assurances by commencement speakers that yours is the most awesome generation ever to walk the earth ring a little odd if you're a survivor of some grim Dotheboys Hall where the prevailing educational philosophy was to lower your self-esteem to undetectable levels by the end of the first week. By Mark Steyn British Atlantic English Dotheboys Hall

Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece - it was for nothing. Donleavy had exposed us.We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous. By Maya Angelou Graduation Diplomas Called Hushhush Magic

I've been waiting for this for so longsomething new, life after high school. By Nina Lacour Life School Waiting Longsomething High

I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.' By Jennie Garth School Excellent Student Left Graduated

On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment. By Charles-Augustin De Coulomb School Assignment Graduating Studious Young

Upon graduation I had felt a heavy sense of doom, a sense that nothing would ever be simple again. But look, look what we had found! We were making it work, with our cash and our bad wrapping jobs, with our fried overdyed hair and our fried overprocessed foods. Everything took on a hazy romance: having a pimple, eating a doughnut, being cold. Nothing was a tragedy, and everything was a joke. By Lena Dunham Sense Doom Graduation Felt Heavy

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. By Louisa May Alcott Life College Honors Graduate Earn

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment. By Bruce Eric Kaplan Graduation Speeches Opportunity Make Sense

I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate. By Ryan Lewis Graduate Time Graduated Back Economy

I hope you will be surprised and knowing at once. I hope you'll always have love. I hope you'll always have a good sense of humour. I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English and/or creative writing degree you'll say: Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire; or maybe just: Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters. By Cheryl Strayed Hope Surprised Knowing Continue Carry

I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text. By Maggie Gyllenhaal College Feel Gratified Finished Learned

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind. By Sarah Zettel University Michigan Communications Graduated Left

I'll graduate high school with a major in Cynicism & a minor in Irritation. By Chelsea Pitcher Cynicism Irritation Graduate High School

Death is the Graduation of the Soul By Sylvia Browne Soul Graduation Death

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. By Ed Koch Today Fireworks Begin Match Fuse

Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck. By Gary Shteyngart American Life Affair Young College

Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure? By Pope Benedict Xvi Dear People Question Young Building

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count. By Donna Rice Count Graduating Summer Knew Wanted

These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. By Bill Vaughan Maniacs Remember Days Jersey Governor

I went through high school, but I didn't graduate. By Evel Knievel School Graduate High

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life. By Natalie Du Toit Wonderful Days School Desk Life

I am still enjoying the successful completion of my PhD; taking time to relax, renew, and refocus. By Lailah Gifty Akita Renew Phd Taking Relax Refocus

We don't stop going to school when we graduate. By Carol Burnett Graduate Stop School

As my college days draw to a close, I find myself looking forward with beating heart and bright anticipations to what the future holds of activity for me. My share in the work of the world may be limited; but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Nay, the desire and will to work is optimism itself. By Helen Keller Close Work College Days Draw

I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it. By Flavor Flav Show Diploma World Late Kids

just graduated from Tufts - Laine By Robin Black Laine Tufts Graduated

I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them. By Bruce Eric Kaplan Speeches Love Graduation Loved

Hopefully I can finish my degree before I get done playing and work with my foundation. By Calvin Johnson Foundation Finish Degree Playing Work

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one. By Jim Jarmusch Nyu Degree Gave Honourary

You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency to occasionally urinate in the refrigerator. You're sure you'll pass Math 106 this time around. You're determined to actually join some clubs this year and not just sit around in your dorm eating spray cheese from a can and watching youtube videos about cats. By Patrick Rothfuss Refrigerator Roommate Wore Tinfoil Socks

Don't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me! By Eric Thomas Roll Honor Shut Work Show

I got a BFA in Fine Art, and then I told my family I was going to be an actress. By Mickey Sumner Art Bfa Fine Actress Told

There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration. By David Foster Wallace American Speeches Routine Happen Large

Eventually, I want to finish my degree. By Susan Ford Eventually Degree Finish

Education is at a turning point By Howard Gardner Education Point Turning

I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality. By Conan O'brien Fail Told Graduates Afraid Disappointment

The greatest graduates come from the University of Life. By Matshona Dhliwayo Life University Greatest Graduates

I told the members of the graduating class that they should be ambitious not just in pursuing their dreams but in aspiring to become leaders in their fields. By Sheryl Sandberg Fields Told Members Graduating Class

Leaving senior year like: its hard to leave to you leave, then its the eased goddam thing you've ever done. By John Green Leaving Leave Senior Year Hard

I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity. Where hard work can lead to success, no matter where you start. By Eva Longoria Degree Opportunity American Importantly Key

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States. By George W. Bush Honours Awards Distinctions States Received

We are graduating members from the class of we made it, not the faded echoes of voices crying out names will never hurt me. Of course they did. But our lives will ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty. By Shane Koyczan Graduating Members Class Made Faded

You don't become a success when you get your diploma, you became a success when you decided to go to college when you get your diploma you get the rewards of success. By John C. Maxwell Success Diploma Decided College Rewards

You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library! By Barack Obama Graduation Flowers Pomp Circumstance Gowns

Scoring high in procreation, got an A studying female anatomy. By Alice Cooper Scoring Procreation Anatomy High Studying

When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter. By Emo Philips College Letter Parents Threw Party

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine. By Paul Tsongas Academe Myth Perpetuated Commencement Holds

When we graduate from childhood into adulthood, we're thrown into this confusing, Cthulhu-like miasma of life, filled with social and career problems, all with branching choices and no correct answers. By Felicia Day Cthulhulike Adulthood Confusing Life Filled

I've just grown up a lot and started to encounter some of the big decisions of life in terms of what career I wanted to do and figuring out personal relationships and things. By Lee Norris Things Grown Lot Started Encounter

As the graduates were called to the stage to collect their diplomas, I shook every hand. Many stopped to give me a hug. One young woman even told me I was "the baddest bitch" (which, having checked with someone later, actually did turn out to be a compliment). By Sheryl Sandberg Diplomas Hand Graduates Called Stage

Allow yourself to graduate, every five years. By Cathy Guisewite Graduate Years

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives. By Joe Baca Catholic Lives School Graduates Exhibit

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it. By Tatyana Ali School Matter Outcome Long

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it. By Matthew Barney York Graduating Interesting Thing Happened

Just relief of trying to get there for eight years. It's finally here and I'm very excited. It's just great. It's been a long ride. By Darrelle Revis Years Relief Excited Great Finally

THE TRULY EDUCATED NEVER GRADUATE By Annabel Monaghan Graduate Educated

I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station. By Angie Martinez School Time Night Summer Made

I pissed on my diploma, smell the aroma. By Kid Rock Diploma Smell Aroma Pissed

When I was 17, I was excited to graduate from high school! By Tyler Blackburn School Excited Graduate High

Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career. By Andy Hargreaves Classes Make Career Memorable Students

In 1986, our commencement speaker was George Schultz, secretary of state, fourth in line to the president. You get me-basic cable's second most popular fake newsman. At this rate, the class of 2021 will be addressed by a zoo parrot in a mortar-board that has been trained to say congratulations. By Stephen Colbert Schultz George Secretary State Fourth

On My Eighth-Grade Graduation Ceremony They're celebrating you graduating from eighth grade? We just went to your sixth-grade graduation two goddamned years ago! Jesus Christ, why don't they just throw a fucking party every time you properly wipe your ass? By Justin Halpern Ceremony Grade Graduation Eighthgrade Celebrating

In fall 2007, I stood at the midway point of completing my undergraduate studies at Columbia. I studied every moment that I wasn't sitting in class. I was very focused on maintaining a solid GPA, so I could go on to law school. By Ray William Johnson Columbia Fall Stood Midway Point

Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out. By Donna Shalala Year Graduating Reminded Kids Freshman

Whole class of filmmakers, they're all graduating to a new level of filmmaking, which I think is awesome. By Katie Aselton Filmmakers Filmmaking Awesome Class Graduating

From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the first time, forlornly open and abandoned, the locker unlocked. This was more final than the moment when the Headmaster handed me my diploma. My schooling was over now. By John Knowles Locker Sneakers Jock Strap Leaving

The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day. By Harry Wong Day Graduation School Important Person

On the hot, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from college it seemed that good fortune was not merely latent but unavoidable, folded and in the bag. By Geoffrey Wolff Hot Fragrant Unavoidable Folded Bag

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days. By Anton Chekhov Days Expect Student End

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation. By Tommy Caldwell School Pretty Bailed High Graduated

The enormous sense of the potentiality for success and failure, and the prospect of triumphs and tragedies, hoover over collegiate students jubilant and anguish filled, animated actuality. By Kilroy J. Oldster Failure Tragedies Hoover Filled Animated

It's been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History. By Julie Nixon Eisenhower Day World Planning Life Strange

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. By Lee Pace Job Mci Commercials Month Graduation

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge. By Max Beerbohm Undergraduates School Owe Happiness Chiefly

I finished 11th grade with a perfect 5.0 GPA, so valedictorian is a sure thing if By Gisele Walko Gpa Finished Grade Perfect Valedictorian

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live. By Sarah Silverman Live Saturday Night Graduated Time

Graduating high school was really emotional for me. I'd obviously made a huge thing out of what that experience was for me, and saying goodbye to it was very weird. So I had to be like, boom, onward and upward. By Tavi Gevinson Graduating High School Emotional Boom

We could never agree about Boogie and I didn't share Miriam's reverence for professors. In fact, just in case I haven't mentioned it before, the pride of my office wall is my framed high-school graduation certificate, lit from above. Miriam has reproached me for it. "Take it down, darling," she once pleaded. But it still hangs there. By Mordecai Richler Boogie Professors Miriam Agree Share

Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets. By Gary Cohn Graduation Job Passion Markets Financial

Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti. By Patti Labelle Music Berklee College Doctorate Patti

Mankind is facing a crossroad - one road leads to despair and utter hopelessness and the other to total extinction - I sincerely hope you graduates choose the right road By Woody Allen Mankind Crossroad Extinction Road Facing

I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree. By Nadine Velazquez College Family Graduate Degree Proud

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic. By Christopher Durang Atheist Graduated Agnostic

This semester has born in me the flame of hope to one day become a leader in the modern feminist movement. I can and will be the force that blows new life into it, giving a face and name to associate with instead of those women now who's names I don't know because they weren't listed on Wikipedia. By Christy Leigh Stewart Movement Semester Born Flame Hope

I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore. By Eddy Merckx Won Anymore School

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee. By Dolly Parton Tennessee University Honorary Doctorate Degree