Commencement Quotes - Page 6

• President Obama and Mitt Romney both gave commencement speeches over the last few days. Obama was like, 'You can be whatever you want to be,' while Romney was like, 'I can be whatever you want me to be.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  President, Speech, Want

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• It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.

  Sallust

  War, Hands, May

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• Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

  Amelia Earhart

  Interesting, Flying, Age

  Amelia Earhart (1928). “20 hrs. 40 min”, Ayer Co Pub

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• [A]s a commencement the Lord appeared unto Joseph Smith, both the Father and the Son, the Father pointing to the Son said, "this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear ye him" Here then, was a communication from the heavens made known unto man on the earth, and he at that time came into possession of a fact that no man knew in the world but he, and that is that God lived, for he had seen him, and that his Son Jesus Christ lived, for he also had seen him.

  John Taylor

  Jesus, Father, Communication

  "Journal of Discourses 21:65", January 4, 1880.

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• With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine, or the commencement of the new one, we trust they will not ultimately result in this generation's being acquainted with these inventions through the medium of pen, ink and paper merely; and still more do we hope, that for the honour of our country's reputation in the future pages of history, these causes will not lead to the completion of the undertaking by some other nation or government.

  Ada Lovelace

  Country, Ink And Paper, Government

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• I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement quotes) that add up to a quantifiable, certain, confidently known, truth. It is a mysterious and malleable thing.

  Ken Burns

  Events, Add, Realization

  "Commencement Address at Washington University in St. Louis" by Ken Burns, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2015.

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• There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Two, Dying, Eternity

  Frederick William Robertson (1880). “"The Human Race" and Other Sermons: Preached at Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton”

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• At his Philadelphia alma mater, Temple University, Cosby gave commencement addresses and attended games. He served on the university`s board of trustees for more than three decades.

  Chaka Fattah

  Games, Philadelphia, Boards

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The question I have is out of all these commencement speeches that are happening, what`s the really worthwhile advice that a 21, 22 year old person will walk away from the speech and say, I can apply this maybe five years, 10 years later. How many speeches actually push the button like that, other than yours?

  David Corn

  Years, Advice, Buttons

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• What kind of a world are we going to leave the next generation? I, at least, want my children to look back and say, "My daddy was being arrested at the White House fence and booed off commencement stages. He was trying."

  Chris Hedges

  Children, White, Daddy

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• The stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates spoke and basically at commencement, he told us all that our job after graduation was to get married and have interesting sons...and we all found that hard to believe.

  Madeleine Albright

  Jobs, Father, Believe

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• The first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969.

  Hillary Clinton

  College, Groups, Firsts

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace. It will always be in conflict. If you accept that, everything gets a lot better.

  Joss Whedon

  Inspirational, Mean, Acceptance

  Joss Whedon's Commencement Address at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu. May 26, 2013.

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• God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.

  Bernie Siegel

  Compassion, Perfect, Suffering

  "The Inner Life: Why Do We Suffer?" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.38, Hachette UK

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