Graduation Quotes

"Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves."
-Jawaharlal Nehru

"The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy."
-Ben Stein

"If you're just going to add graduation requirements, you're just (going to be seen as) piling on."
-Mark Sanford

"I was at my nephew's graduation from Harvard Business School."
-Gary Hirshberg

"The closer I get to graduation, the more attractive of a candidate I am."
-Thomas Mitchell

"Daniel would never want us to mope around on graduation. He would want us to have fun."
-Ben Stocking

"They have a great coaching staff and their 98 percent graduation rate really convinced me."
-Andrew Walls

"Our goal is to have every student on track toward graduation or finishing the semester."
-Steve Lemke

"We took a lot of hits to graduation, but we'll be strong again. We'll be in the mix in the conference again."
-Kari Rosenberg

"No kids who have come to Project Graduation have ever been in an accident that night."
-Troy Mauldin

"This is about graduation. Our schools are graduating at a better rate than anyone else in the country."
-Rick Chryst

"It's not fair to compare it to a Caucasian graduation because the main graduation is Caucasian."
-Maressa Mendeola

""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

"Although there are more students from low-income families with college aspirations and more first-generation college students, we need to do a better job of seeing these students through to graduation."
-Gaston Caperton

"The graduation rate is up 11.7 percent this year. That being said, our graduation rate fluctuates wildly."
-Dave Wilmes

"That's the only graduation I ever cried at. Those kids were committed and overachieved."
-Merrill Mankin

"We're going to work hard to make the graduation ceremonies just as exciting as they would be if they were held here."
-Louis Smith

"We consider the graduation rate to be very successful given the population that we're serving and their backgrounds."
-Theodore Dues

"I'm not going to cry at graduation."
-Coleman Ollinger

"We lost a couple of girls to graduation, and we had some injuries early. We had some adjustments we had to go through there, but we were 14-6 in our last 20 games."
-Joey Lawson

"The remittances are for the early graduation expenses."
-Marcelo Ayes

"We're going to do everything in our power to have the graduation on the football field."
-Theresa Hamilton

"We've heard nothing at all about the graduation contract since the 2004-05 academic year ended. Nothing has happened at all."
-Cathy Hunt

"The coach talked a lot about the graduation rate, which is about 97 percent. And it's quiet down there, so I can concentrate."
-Sequoia Mckinney

"A lot of times some students don't take it seriously because it's not tied to graduation."
-Patty Burke

"Graduation night will be a hard night as far as letting go."
-Brenda Pousson