“"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.”
Christine Todd
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.”
Erma Bombeck
“The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford," she told the 2001 graduation ceremony. "And I was afraid the day I walked out.”
Carly Fiorina
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
“I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.”
Peter De Vries
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
Aristotle