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Quotes About Commencement

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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.
~ Robert Purvis
Beginning is half done.
~ Robert Schuller
All you can do is start from where you are.
~ Robin Hobb
The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
~ Louis L'Amour
The dance had begun.
~ Ruth Doan MacDougall
Where should I start? I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote back this: ?????????. You should start where you are.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Start again. Tell the readers how they met. Start at the beginning.
~ Ruth Ozeki
A book must start somewhere. Listen…
~ Ruth Ozeki
Is birth always a fall?
~ Salman Rushdie
Comte de la Fere, Touching Some Events Which Passed in France Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XIII and the Commencement of the Reign
~ Alexandre Dumas
You know me now. I'm only good at beginnings.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Todo comienzo tiene su encanto.
~ Johann Wolfgang Goethe
A Bad start is still a start by Tyr FaHazathant
~ E.E. Knight
Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain
~ Earl Lovelace
The best way to get something done is to begin.
~ Anonymous
It's a good idea to begin at the bottom in everything except in learning to swim.
~ Anonymous
She actually found it on the first page.
~ Anthony Horowitz
'Pump' was my first song.
~ Lil Pump
Beginnings are such delicate times.
~ Frank Herbert
Once more the drama begins.
~ Frank Herbert
Winning starts with beginning.
~ Robert H. Schuller
I think the first thing is that if you're going to make a game which is accessible and which draws people in, you've got to start from the beginning.
~ Peter Molyneux
For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick