No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
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Related 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL I think offense will be our strength. We lost a lot to graduation in the back, so that's where we're... GREG GVOZDAS Texas institutions need to work on their four- and six-year graduation rates, and we know that is so... RAY GRASSHOFF Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may... DONALD RUMSFELD Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes... ARIE PENCOVICI For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like... WILLIAM BARCLAY Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future.... BLAISE PASCAL I never thought I'd be able to catch back up, but I'll be able to walk (at graduation) with the rest... BRANDI MCCABE With the graduation of six starting players, we will have a lot of new faces to integrate into the l... BEV LOWDEN How simple it is to acknowledge that all the worry in the world could not control the future. How si... JONATHAN HARNISCH There will be other incentives, but right now the graduation rate is something we consider very, ver... DAMON EVANS The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever... GIORDANO BRUNO We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wi... BRUCE BARTON The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL With only one loss to graduation, we should be even stronger this year. BRETT AYERS With the graduation of so many key midfielders, there is no doubt we will be young, ... However, wha... ANNE MOORE Now that we made it to today, how was your yesterday? Do you see how life works. Do you see how you ... TARIDEANA BREAZEALE The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... we can only see forwards and never look back and when we turn around we can miss what's to come so d... MATTHEW WAYNE GAULIN [Granville had a 100 percent graduation rate for the 2003-2004 school year. Newark had 78.1, while a... DAN MONTGOMERY It is inevitable that machines will one day become the ultimate enemies of mankind. We are not evolv... SUZY KASSEM We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. ALAN TURING We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about whic... C.S. LEWIS We casually laugh at things, but we do not realize how much a laugh contributes. We turn a blind eye... LASHAN DIA GRAY I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those... IRIS MURDOCH I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON One of our biggest advantages is that we didn't lose anyone to graduation. We had some strong player... CRYSTAL SPACKMAN It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in... TAYLOR CALDWELL We dream. We aspire. We hope. Sure, we can get down too. But it's not about that. It's not those mom... ZECHARIAH BARRETT Popular as he was as a graduation speaker, Vonnegut never graduated from college. KURT VONNEGUT JR. The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we w... PIERRE TRUDEAU The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu... BLAISE PASCAL We need to put it together and get on a streak. But whatever happens you can be assured that we will... JOE NEMECHEK That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not ... DAVID BAKER I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and ... LATOYA JACKSON The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will ... PIERRE TRUDEAU If we win, it will be over. If we lose, we will have to talk about an appeal at that time. ... If we... ANGLICAN BISHOP ROBERT DUNCAN For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like... WILLIAM BARCLAY Life has a way of going in circles. Ideally, it would be a straight path forward––we'd always kn... BRIGID GORRY-HINES The last scene? I've got to tell you, everyone was bawling. People were just crying. It was like a g... MILA KUNIS Deep in our nature we are foragers, and life is a process of gathering the resources we need from a ... NEIL STRAUSS Voter apathy is a civic abdication. CHARLES M. BLOW A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed... ROBERT ORBEN A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed... ROBERT PURVIS What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN We only see the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. ... RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI We can see better by being up a level what steps there are we need to take to continue our upward pl... JAMES LOFTIN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now, th... STEPHEN FRY Surely the greatest mercy granted us by Providence is our ignorance of the future. Imagine if we kne... ROBERT HARRIS I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Today will be fine with no problems at all but what we're looking at is three or four days ahead in ... CAMERON WADE They see a mayor getting killed here, policeman being blown up at a graduation ceremony there. If we... ROBERT ORR Our approach is that we want students to show a return on investment when they walk across the gradu... AMY CATHEY The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing. JENNIFER NIVEN The graduation rate is up 11.7 percent this year. That being said, our graduation rate fluctuates wi... DAVE WILMES We all need a technological detox; we need to throw away our phones and computers instead of using t... EVAN SUTTER We had no intensity on defense to start and they just ran up and down the floor on us but we came ba... JAY KARLINS But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they a... MARY BALOGH We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought oursel... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL You create the attitude which creates you. How you see things comes from how you think about things.... AKIROQ BROST We took a lot of hits to graduation, but we'll be strong again. We'll be in the mix in the conferenc... KARI ROSENBERG A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed... ROBERT ORBEN I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I s... J.K. ROWLING But there is nothing, no trace that she’s ever existed. She is not here. She will never be here ag... CHRISTINE FONSECA When you say mainstream, that usually implies mediocre. And this is not mediocre. There's probably a... VIGGO MORTENSEN On most of our campuses this is a very scary moment. For us as a group, it's a time at which the ans... ARTHUR LEVINE Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far it is t... JOSEPH E. MCCABE That is not where we need to be, ... We're looking at other ways to satisfy their financial concerns... MARK MCCLAIN It's not fair to compare it to a Caucasian graduation because the main graduation is Caucasian. MARESSA MENDEOLA I was pleased that we did not give up and call it quits when we were down by 17. But all the girls b... DERRICK DELTON Our defense didn't help her early on. We gave them space and room to fast break, which is what we wa... JANINE TUCKER As a species, tragedy dwells within us all. We push it to the back of our thoughts, but it is never ... LOGAN KAIN Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us liv... DAN PEARCE There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our... JOHN DENVER We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no su... KAHLIL GIBRAN We think that at this point in our lives, the sooner we get back to what we think our gift is, is wr... BARRY GIBB Learning is everywhere. Paying attention is key to learn something every day. The gravestone will be... LILY CHATTERJEE We're a lot speedier this year, offensively. We lost a lot of multi-year starters to graduation, but... DON TURNER People will frighten you about a graduation...They use words you don't hear often... "And we wish yo... BILL COSBY Only that which is attained through effortlessness will never be a burden to you, and only that whic... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH They originally talked about moving the prom to the night before either graduation or graduation pra... ROBERT LAWSON It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER We are still getting better. We are becoming a good team and it is good to see that...We need to app... LEBRON JAMES Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world.... G.K. CHESTERTON We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy ... CHRISTO Indoor football has a tremendous pace to it and the new logo displays our team mascot ready to not o... LOU STEIN Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK You and I move through time like a flame on a string. The ashes behind are the past, consumed, unrea... BRANDON MULL In my opinion this life is our pre-school and we are all students, if we fail too pass our destiny, ... SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Listen to me," cried Syme with extraordinary emphasis. "Shall I tell you the secret of the whole wor... G.K. CHESTERTON I don't think you can have enough planning, and looking at the New Orleans response will be helpful.... JACK WEISS We stipulate about where we need to be in life: By this age you should be married, by this age you s... PAYAL KADAKIA You need to be content with small steps. That's all life is. Small steps that you take every day so ... KATIE KACVINSKY For every step forward in electronic communications, we've taken two steps back in humanity. Peo... LETITIA BALDRIGE
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TAYLOR LAUTNER I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they... TAYLOR LAUTNER You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do. TAYLOR LAUTNER When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you'... TAYLOR KITSCH I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box of... TAYLOR KITSCH I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot... TAYLOR KITSCH Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of wh... TAYLOR KITSCH I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I... TAYLOR KITSCH I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a ... TAYLOR KITSCH I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film came... TAYLOR KITSCH A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the cr... TAYLOR KITSCH There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quit... TAYLOR KITSCH You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.' TAYLOR KITSCH I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever see... TAYLOR KITSCH And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the pla... TAYLOR KITSCH I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're goin... TAYLOR KITSCH I'm an all-or-nothing person. TAYLOR KITSCH I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myse... TAYLOR KITSCH People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during ... TAYLOR KITSCH A good old rodeo never hurt anyone. TAYLOR KITSCH To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a me... TAYLOR KINNEY Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When... TAYLOR KINNEY My mum wants me to get married - and have children, of course. She's met Gaga; we've been da... TAYLOR KINNEY I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff... TAYLOR KINNEY When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rum... TAYLOR KINNEY I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outsid... TAYLOR KINNEY I don't have lavish taste. TAYLOR KINNEY I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country. TAYLOR KINNEY I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure. TAYLOR KINNEY As an actor, some of my favorite things to work on are night exterior scenes. Any time that we'r... TAYLOR KINNEY If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of wo... TAYLOR KINNEY I have a bunch of brothers. I grew up with a big family. TAYLOR KINNEY To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait. TAYLOR KINNEY I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general. TAYLOR KINNEY I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red mea... TAYLOR KINNEY I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started l... TAYLOR KINNEY I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out. TAYLOR KINNEY I am a gypsy. I havent' had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person - I just throw eve... TAYLOR KINNEY I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, clim... TAYLOR KINNEY I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair ... TAYLOR KINNEY Winning 'American Idol' gives the opportunity to really help make a change to a lot of lives... TAYLOR HICKS There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced whe... TAYLOR HICKS I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally trans... TAYLOR HICKS