"At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros." - Paul Freund
hope, time, mind, bold
"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate." - Doug Larson
trouble, learning, experience
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde
education, admire, remember, time, worth, taught
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
school, education
"To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the 'C' students, I say you too may one day be President of the United States." - George W. Bush
honor, distinction, students, president
"Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money." - Gary Bolding
family, imagine, relief, time, money
"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
ceremony, speaker, students, individuality, success
"It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days." - Isabel Waxman
ironic, school, yearning, days, nostalgic
"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
adult, parents, home, contemporaries
"One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time." - Unknown
experience, repeat, lesson
"You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom." - Proverb
top, bottom