“All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.” – Anonymous.

* “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.” – Erma Bombeck.
“People will frighten you about a graduation…They use words you don’t hear often… “And we wish you Godspeed.” It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.” – Bill Cosby.

“”Me, we.” (the shortest graduation quote & speech, delivered at a Harvard graduation.) – Anonymous.

“The elective system … offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapés of knowledge and never had their fill.”  – Ted Morgan.