Memorable Commencement Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is a story
that is so good,
It doesn't need
complete sentences. — John Smyth

Whenever I let him in he would halt on the threshold drawing the whole of his luminous life up into his smile. — Mina Loy

I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world. — Zhou Xun

I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing. — Alice Sebold

'Ice Age' felt like stage acting. You'd write a sequence, and sometimes you'd submit pages, but other times, I would actually perform it for the directors and producer in my office. — Jason Fuchs

There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race. — Roland Allen

God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend that we may serve it up in any sort of dish that will induce the people to partake of it — Catherine Booth

The fear of any adventure is the root of unfilled life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And while you're 'hearing' all this vital gossip, I might point out to you that no wise man tells all he knows. And that he who carries tales has little else in his head. Do you understand me, Brant? — Robin Hobb

My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation. — Janet Fitch

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade. — Ross Kemp

Women are like posters. One is stuck on top of another and covers it completely. Perhaps just for a moment, when the paste is still soft and the paper still wet and slightly transparent, you may still catch a vague impression of the splashes of color of the first, but soon there's no more trace of it. Then, when the second one is removed, both come away together, leaving your memory and your heart as blank as a wall. — Pitigrilli

When standing before certain men the philosopher regrets that thinkers are but perishable tissue, the artist that perishable tissue has to think. — Thomas Hardy

Life is an amazingly mysterious and interesting game. To win, you have to play with the magical powers of love and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

The Christianity of America is a Christianity, of whose votaries it may be as truly said, as it was of the ancient scribes and Pharisees, 'They bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. — Frederick Douglass