If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. – Time 23 June 1961

A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, ‘I’ve been going for three months.’ I said, ‘How many successful jumps do you need to make before you graduate?’ He said, ‘All of them.’

How do we deal with all the people we’ve been? What happens when we have to confront them?

When an illiterate gets angry, you’ll get to understand that calmness is probably a sign of education.

The remittances are for the early graduation expenses.

If we know we’ve got one graduating, we’re looking for another one. It’s like getting a point guard or a shooter. It’s a kid with an edge. You have to have some of that.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

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Be careful who you call crazy. Some of us think it’s a compliment.

I don’t think that will be a problem here because we’ve never had a problem with graduation rates here. I think that will continue no matter who the coach is.

What type of question is that?”A bad one, I decided, and resolved to keep my mouth shut the rest of the day and just enjoy the bitter sweetness of it all.

pg. 231-232: They’d given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!

On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?

Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don’t pause for long; there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so.

I would hope that every graduate of Chaney [can receive] a graduation present that would be to purchase them a brick. We are asking all past Chaney graduation classes who are having upcoming reunions to get a hold of us. And we are asking all former class presidents to please call us and give us...

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she’d tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you’re ever going to. Look around. It’s all downhill from here. The rest of us will go a bit further,...

recession.” No matter how many millions of jobs are lost, how much debt our country accrues, or how many years the stagnation drags on, it’s not a depression until the dogmatic media officially declares it to be a depression. It’s as if they believe by repeatedly printing or saying economists are afraid the economy will...

The best university in the world is neither Oxford nor Harvard. The best university is “youniversity”. YOU got the lecture halls of thoughts in YOU! You got everything you need to graduate with first class accomplishments put in you! YOU can do it!

It’s a symbolic donation. We are having an impact even beyond our graduation.

We’re not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We’re not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We’re the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we’ve crowded in here to hide from the future and the past. We know what’s up – the future looms straight ahead like a black wrought-iron gate and the past is charging after us like a badass Doberman,...

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

Congratulations!Today is your dayYou’re off to great placesYou’re off and awayYou’ve got brains in your headYou’ve got feet in your shoesYou can steer yourself anyDirection you chooseYou’re on your ownAnd you know what you knowAnd you are the guyWho’ll decide where you goOut there things can happenAnd frequently doTo people as brainyAnd footsy as youAnd...

The Big 12 Conference lost a lot of talented players to graduation, but there are a lot of new names. It’s kind of a changing of the guard. It is a very talented freshman group.

You won’t be able to do this ten years from now—just leave everything behind and go.

I think offense will be our strength. We lost a lot to graduation in the back, so that’s where we’re trying to catch up.

The road may be rough, the journey may be tough and the experience may be bitter, but they are stepping stones to our future thrones

Her problem is with pretty,” Tennyson said. “She thinks I’ll need all these dresses in college. Like I would ever in a billion years pledge a sorority. I’ll pack a few of these to be ironic, though. I can wear them to, like, truck stops at night with mascara running down my cheeks and stuff.

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.

The world is waiting for us to graduate from ourselves.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

The prize won is only a token; the absolute prize is the positive change your work has made in the communities and across borders.

Coach said. “the quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor”.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.