“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.” Dick Cheney
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” Confucius
“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 Purvis
“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.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“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.” H. G. Wells
“It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I’d become an actor.” James D’arcy
“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.” Maureen Forrester
“While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.” Ruben Hinojosa
“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.” Hamilton Jordan
“I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.” Will McDonough
“One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don’t often do them.” Jerry Moran
