Famous Quotes

"You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world."

Tom Brokaw 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 Tom Brokaw

• "It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."

• "You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world."

• "If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church."