Commencement Ceremony Quotes

The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.

I didn't even go to graduation.

To begin, at the beginning.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.

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.