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High school graduations are in full swing. Read some well-known quotes about graduations.
Wednesday’s HOME-Spun Wisdom

RISMEDIA, June 23-High school graduations are in full swing. Read some well-known quotes about graduations.

?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

?Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.?

- Richard Halliburton

?Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.?

- A. Lawrence Lowell

?There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.?

- Orrin Hatch

?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

?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

?You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.?

- Tom Brokaw

?It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.?

- Brooks Atkinson

?Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.?

- Garry Trudeau

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