Graduation Congratulations Quotes & Sayings

Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece - it was for nothing. Donleavy had exposed us.
We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous. — Maya Angelou

Soul of a victim tends to prove her innocence. — Toba Beta

There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie. — Dick Wolf

Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have. — Yotam Ottolenghi

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. — Newton D. Baker

Jesus preached socialism and pacifism," I say, "which is wrong and un-American since it discourages entrepreneurship and doesn't support our troops, but I'm a Christian so I forgive him. — James Marshall

The day had been difficult, but she was making me laugh, just like Andi had. I needed it more than oxygen. — Rachel Van Dyken

The idea of being given things that you don't necessarily deserve was always a difficult one for me to negotiate, and so I really always felt that I had to prove myself. Being the daughter of a famous man I guess is more easy than being the daughter of a famous woman, but at the same time there was a sense of really, with me, of wanting to earn my own way. — Anjelica Huston

Most people who own colleges in India haven't. Stupid people go to college. Smart people own them, — Chetan Bhagat

I never realized Death was so fleet of foot.'
'The fleetest. Always dancing in the shadows.'
'Always waiting for his next partner?'
'Dancing through a long list until he finds the perfect one. — Anne Mallory

The bottom line remains the same: you're either awake or you're not.One day, there it is. Nothing. No more enemies, no more battles. — Jed McKenna

In a normal family, surprise means presents, cake and a party. My family, surprise means homelessness, abandonment and destruction of private property. Sometimes we have cake. We're not losers. — Christopher Titus

Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction. — Ephrem The Syrian

If there was one thing I knew, it was that our demons were what shaped who we were. The things we do, the way we act, are all driven by the things we want locked away forever. — Barbara C. Doyle