Famous Quotes

"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."

M. H. Abrams on Graduation

More quotes about Graduation

• "It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree."

  John F. Kennedy on Graduation

• "God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

  Elbert Hubbard on Graduation

• "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."

  Robert Orben on Graduation

• "Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."

  Erma Bombeck on Graduation

• "Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

  T. S. Eliot on Graduation

More quotes by M. H. Abrams

• "It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."

• "If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."