Alex Guarnaschelli - I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
John Keegan - I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
Raheem DeVaughn - I have a good cry once in a while; it's such a great release. Or it could be a cry of joy - watching your child being born or your child walking across a graduation stage.
Pat Buchanan - Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.
Robert Anthony - Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Charles Spurgeon - It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Oscar Wilde - Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Hazel Scott - Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.
Germaine Greer - Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
James Baldwin - “I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Tim Duncan - I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.
Renee Olstead - If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.
Akshay Kumar - It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree.
Andy Behrman - After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.
Sandra Tsing Loh - Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.
John Adams - It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
Wendell L. Wilkie - I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
Gerald Stanley Lee - America is a tune. It must be sung together
James Madison - The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
George Bernard Shaw - Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Kahlil Gibran - Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Gloria Steinem - The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Barack Obama - In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope
Dwight D. Eisenhower - The history of men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
George Washington - Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - America is another name for opportunity.
Peter Marshall - May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but the opportunity to do what is right.
Marquis de Lafayette - Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
Lupita Nyong'o - Dreams are the foundation of America.
Hillary Clinton - Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - America means opportunity, freedom, power.
John F. Kennedy - Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Albert Camus - Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Mac Thornberry - No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
James Bryce - Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
Henry James - I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
J.S.B. Morse - I don't believe in the constitution because I'm American. I'm American because I believe in the constitution.
Fanny Lewald - That is the truly beautiful and encouraging aspect of freedom; no one struggles for it just for himself.
Ronald Reagan - Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
Louis D. Brandeis - Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness.
Abraham Lincoln - Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Benjamin Franklin - Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Harry S. Truman - America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination.
Eleanor Roosevelt - With freedom comes responsibility.
Paul Tsongas - America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
Martin Luther King Jr. - From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
Nelson Mandela - For to be is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
William Faulkner - We must be not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.