#graduation

Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer. ↗

— David McCullough Jr.

#graduation #inspirational #wellesley-high-school #dreams

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen. ↗

— Junior Seau

#all day #am #day #go #going

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated! ↗

— Henny Youngman

#dog #go #graduated #his #man

Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor". ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#excellence #graduation #perseverance #quality #life

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

#irony #identity

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. ↗

— Fred Allen

#back #case #college #day #got

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#graduate #graduate student #harvard #history #i

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#art #arts #degree #fantastic #get

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me. ↗

— Elizabeth Blackwell

#aspect #assumed #attraction #degree #doctor

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on! ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#barracks #before #even #graduated #had