Graduation Quotes
Two of the most popular graduation lines are flagged. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself” is a paraphrase of John Dewey, not a quotation. The one about education being what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school is credited to Einstein and flagged as misattributed.
The page is assembled from the pages on education, success, the future, dreams and learning. It has no graduation speeches in it, but it does have a lot of quotes that get used in them. If you are writing a speech, use the sourced entries; the label will tell you which is which.
Fool, what is sleep but the likeness of icy death? The fates shall give us a long period of rest.
Deep rest and sweet, most like indeed to death's own quietness.
If you don't have that sense of national unity, then it's very hard for a country to succeed.
Didst thou never hear
That things ill-got had ever bad success?
The Republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.