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 Orben

The fireworks begin today.  Each diploma is a lighted match, 
each one of you is a fuse.
	- Ed Koch

All that stands between the graduate and the top of the 
ladder is the ladder.
	- Old Saying

The young graduate is discovering that among the necessaries 
of life, the most important is living.
	- Old Saying

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you 
graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on  until the 
last day of your life. If you can grasp that , you'll make 
a difference.
	- Arie Pencovici

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If 
school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a 
college graduate today. 
        - George Foreman (1949-) US boxer 

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
        - Washington Irving

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. 
It's what you do with your life that counts.
        - Millard Fuller

From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone 
gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? 
You go to the place where you got one hundred plus. 
        - Louise Nevelson US sculptor, painter

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many 
graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word 
left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten. . .
        - Arthur Schomburg US educator, administrator "Racial 
         Integrity," 1913.

50% of the high school graduates in this country graduated in the 
bottom half of their class.
        - Unknown

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
        - Doug Larson In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference 
            Collection," AApex Software, 1994.

It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to 
graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our 
school days.
        - Isabel Waxman

...Yes, the lectures are optional. Graduation is also optional.
        - Bob Bickford

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 
4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. 
        - George Foreman

A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, 'I've 
been going for three months.' I said, 'How many successful jumps 
do you need to make before you graduate?' He said, 'All of them.'
        - Red Skelton

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
        - Louisa May Alcott

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