Graduation Wishes Quotes & Sayings

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author ... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window. — George Bernard Shaw

Tell mea tale from the days when shadow cloaked the land, when the Dark Crystal and its missing shard had not yet been reunited. — Barbara Randall Kesel

For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them. They fear the bold man, and mistrust the clever man, and moreover think them rather beholding to their natural complexion, than to any goodness of their will, for these excellences; they look upon valour as a certain natural strength of the mind, and wisdom as a constitutional acuteness; whereas a man has it in his power to be just, if he have but the will to be so, and therefore injustice is thought the most dishonourable, because it is least excusable. — Plutarch

You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life. — Ryan Holiday

But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years. — Madeleine L'Engle

It's always a problem - you've got to figure out a place to put your body. You've got to wake up in the morning and deal with the fact that you have this body to lug around. — Laurel Nakadate

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. — Emily Dickinson

To some degree, Hollywood doesn't know what to do with me because the characters I do are so different. But hopefully, that will give me longevity. — Sharlto Copley

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now. — Eckhart Tolle

As for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had spun them, and were flecked with little truths - intrusions of reality into fantasy, like toast crumbs on a wizard's beard. — Laini Taylor

I was worried that in London I would be judged for who I know rather than what I do. In New York, I am known for fashion. — L'Wren Scott

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful. — Pete Hamill

The PEOPLE being regarded as the essential part of the State, and FOOD as the people's heaven, is it not right that those in authority should value and be careful of both?] — Sun Tzu

Of course he was there, a removed audience
of my redemption songs from beyond the grave,
the way Kafka and his father continued to shadow-box,
long after they quit staring at each other
at the dinner table. — Thabo Jijana

I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses. — Anne Ellis

I'm going to kill you, you lying cocksucker. -Annie Wilks — Stephen King