graduation

Tassels turn, caps fly, and suddenly the map of your entire life looks entirely unwritten. Whether you are stepping away from a lecture hall or stumbling into an unexpected calling, these moments of transition demand voices that capture both the terror and the thrill of what comes next. Within this collection, you will find reflections that strip away the pomp and circumstance to examine the grit, the uncertainty, and the quiet lessons left behind by years of hard work. Take your time wandering through these perspectives, and see if you can find the right words to send you off into your own next great unknown.

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"God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

— Elbert Hubbardgraduation

"So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened."

— Ted Nelsongraduation

"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree."

— Marian Wright Edelmangraduation

"I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information."

— Irvine Welshgraduation

"It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree."

— John F. Kennedygraduation

"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."

— Erma Bombeckgraduation

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"I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer."

-James Green Somerville

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"I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer."

"The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college."

"The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities."

"Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it."

"I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree."

"Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree."

"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."

"My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year."

"Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops."

"I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement."

"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."

"A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick."

"People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song."

"I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player."

"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."

"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."

"I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation."

"I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting."

"It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor."

"One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them."

"At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers."

"I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'"

"A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials."

"All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since."

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