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graduations

«From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.»
«There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end, it's the beginning.»
«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.»
«Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these»
«There are all kinds of ways to forestall graduation. Taking a term off, getting suspended, not completing courses, all of these are valid.»
«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.»
«REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience. In a republic, the foundation of public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from ancestors who, being truly governed, submitted because they had to. There are as many kinds of republics as there are graduations between the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.»
«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.»
«At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.»