Quotes About Commencement

innocence is ignorance; ignorance is illusion; and Commencement, while it certainly is a metaphor, is no illusion. Commencement's for the disillusioned, not for the innocent.

All's well that begins well!

The bookends of success are starting and finishing.

We would always remember how it all started even if we forget how it end.

Inspiration starts somewhere.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

I feel like I came to acting late in a way.

I came into the league in '94.

Today is the first day in history. -One of Nathan's Daily Gems From the 'Book Store ON Main Street' Seal Beach, CA

I shall start at the beginning. Though of course, the beginning is never where you think it is.

Just joined. More later.

in the beginning. Thank you, Black Entertainment Television (BET

My memory begins with my anger.

Over the decades, I have given speeches of many types, but commencement addresses (along with remarks at funerals) are the hardest to prepare. At my own graduation, the principal speaker was the secretary of defense, who advised the young ladies of Wellesley to find suitable husbands and raise smart children.

They made it to graduation without further incident. Bruce, the class salutatorian, gave a well-honed speech. The commencement address was delivered by the Honorable Frank H. Seay, a popular district court judge from next door in Seminole County.

It was also the prelude

A school's job [is] to begin education.

Let the experience begin!

Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.

A good beginning is half the work.

They say all things end. But I say all things begin.

We'll start over. But you can't start. Only a baby can start

It all starts right there