Graduation Squad Quotes

We don't stop going to school when we graduate. ~ Carol Burnett

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. ~ Doug Larson

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. ~ John Updike

Oh yeah!? Well I can count to purple backwards! ~ Teeny Tiny Girl's Squad

What is the status of Sak-tak and his squad? Report!" "We ran into a Rakorsian squad, and they were all killed." "Glory to the Ssrisk!" "No, you misunderstand. I mean, the Ssrisk squad was killed." "Eternal pain and torment to the Rakorsian scum! ~ Michelle Proulx

Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee. ~ Robert Burns

Keeping players happy is not easy and I think anyone with a big squad will tell you that. ~ Alex Ferguson

At least six Bayern players, who have won almost everything, are in the national squad. ~ Franz Beckenbauer

Because Utah is largely Mormon country, the firing squad's a little different. You're blindfolded but no cigarette. ~ David Letterman

Paul Scholes should be included in England's Euro 2012 squad. ~ Harry Redknapp

I didn't even go to graduation. ~ Brendon Urie

I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech. ~ Art Buchwald

I was class president, on the cheerleading squad, in a competitive show choir, and in, like, six different clubs. ~ Blake Lively

Despite 'Mod Squad's hit status, I never really made the inner connection that I was contributing. ~ Peggy Lipton

Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. ~ Eldridge Cleaver

If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad ~ Smedley Butler

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ~ Ambrose Bierce

I love singing along to the radio while I'm riding in the back of a squad car. ~ Dane Cook

I am still young and being the [England] squad is really good for me although I've still got a lot to learn. ~ Jermain Defoe

Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I liked the idea of doing the same thing, which is one reason I structured 'Goon Squad' as a record album, with an A side and a B side, that's built around the contrasting sounds of the individual numbers in it. ~ Jennifer Egan

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick. ~ Moira Kelly

The world is waiting for us to graduate from ourselves. ~ Shannon L. Alder

We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad ~ David Gill

Now in Utah if you get the death sentence, they have the firing squad. In Russia, they call that early retirement. ~ David Letterman

Let your only graduation be in the grave. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You have [Donald] Trump and [Ted] Cruz battling it out, and the moderate establishment candidates like Chris Christie or Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich - they have formed a circular firing squad. ~ Mara Liasson

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. ~ Orrin Hatch

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it. ~ Tim O'Brien

In this way the squad has merely made the turn-about and a couple of paces, while the squad-leader dashes backwards and forwards like a fart on a curtain-pole. ~ Erich Maria Remarque

I have great confidence in Rene and high expectations for our squad to respond. ~ Shahid Khan

Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire. ~ Rob Sheffield

I left for New York three days after graduation. ~ Jenn Lyon

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation. ~ Will McDonough

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 Orben

People will frighten you about a graduation ... They use words you don't hear often ... ~ Bill Cosby

Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force. ~ Dennis L. McKiernan

It seemed to me ... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops. ~ Evan Hunter

The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all. ~ John Wooden

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~ Martha Reeves

Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment. ~ Rocky Bridges

Dressing up and doing photo shoots was a side of the industry I really didn't think I would like. But now I've got a glam squad; I love trying on new outfits and experimenting with different looks. ~ Ella Henderson

The most important thing is to not stop questioning. ~ Albert Einstein

Friends are squad. Squad is family. Family is forever. ~ Malaika Gilani

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it. ~ Jill Scott

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation. ~ Tommy Caldwell

Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true ~ Claudio Ranieri

High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability. ~ Ben Bernanke

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University. ~ Harold E. Varmus

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. ~ Olivia Wilde

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness. ~ Bruce Eric Kaplan

Teaching Career does not begin with the completion of graduation and post graduation and attaining a degree – it begins the moment one starts caring about learners. ~ Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life ... ~ Emily Giffin

No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don't work out. ~ Jennifer Hudson

You need to be your own cheer squad not your own worst enemy. ~ Miya Yamanouchi

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley. ~ Kevin Spacey

The only way we'd get beaten was if we got a little fat-headed, if we didn't train right, if we had dissension on the squad. ~ Woody Hayes

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player. ~ Tim Duncan

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement. ~ Ayelet Waldman

At a training session Neymar dribbled around seven opponents before he scored. It was the senior squad's offence against the senior squad's defence so we are talking about skilled players here. The goal was better than his goal that was chosen as the best in the world. ~ Peter Banke

I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together. ~ Robert Mueller

I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up ... This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures. ~ Annie Leibovitz

I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian. ~ Mallory Ortberg

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. ~ Elisabeth Kubler Ross

In the school of the woods, there is no graduation day. ~ Horace Kephart

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble ... If you're constantly pushing yourself higher ... the law of averages, not to mention the Myth of Icarus, predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. ~ Oprah Winfrey

I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest. ~ Jennifer Egan

The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years. ~ Dennis Washington

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials. ~ Lee Pace

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure. ~ Ruben Hinojosa

The last days before graduation are bad enough, God knows
out of the womb you go, ready or not. The halls rang with the laughter of the girls who were going to be brides in the next week (and widows shortly after) ... ~ Elizabeth Savage

I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the ... they created their whole own world of music. ~ Rick Rubin

Graduation is not the terminus of your experience; it is the terminal of your success. ~ Christian J. Dolores

When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it. ~ Patricia Riggen

I did rhythmic gymnastics and I absolutely adored it. I was in the squad for Sussex. I wasn't stupendous, but it was something that I was good at and I really loved the combination of discipline and expression. That, to me, was just dreamy. ~ Gwendoline Christie

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed. ~ Karen Finerman

When I was 17, I was a Lakers Girl; I was the youngest girl on the squad. ~ Moon Bloodgood

Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles. Because for me, ramen noodles are the international symbol for struggle. ~ Robert Stephens

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early. ~ Alexa Von Tobel

There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment. ~ Steven Gerrard

When I pass-away (as each of us must) release a balloon into the sky with ashes attached, to celebrate my graduation... My graduation from this life to the next. ~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading scores on record. Our high school graduation rate has hit an all-time high. And more Americans finish college than ever before. ~ Barack Obama

I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog. ~ Fetty Wap

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. ~ Sara Paretsky

- Question. Would you die for me?
- Yes.
- That's too easy. Will you... Would you live for me? ... Hmm?
- Yes.
- Careful! Do not say this oath thoughtlessly! ... Desire becomes surrender, surrender becomes power. You want this?
- I do.
- Say it. Say it. Say it! Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty...
- Please?!
- Mm, God, you're so... good!
― Joker & Harley Quinn ~ Suicide Squad (2016 Movie Directed By David Ayer)

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. ~ William Arthur Ward

I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year. ~ R. Lee Ermey

Time is not measured by the passing of yaers but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia. ~ Julie Taymor

On My Eighth-Grade Graduation Ceremony They're celebrating you graduating from eighth grade? We just went to your sixth-grade graduation two goddamned years ago! Jesus Christ, why don't they just throw a fucking party every time you properly wipe your ass? ~ Justin Halpern

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment. ~ Bruce Eric Kaplan

To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match. ~ Gerard Houllier

Be yourself,its the best thing you can be. ~ Selena Gomez

Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time. ~ Barry Levinson

Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job. ~ Gerald Chertavian

I'm so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London. ~ Alexis Sanchez

It was a great thing for the Blues boys to do in terms of shaving their hair off for me. The whole squad did it. At first I thought it was only going to be a handful of boys, but fair play, they all did it, and a few of the coaches as well. ~ Matthew Rees

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself. ~ Quentin Bryce

My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master's degree. I'm glad I didn't know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time, money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day. ~ Regina Brett

And that's why I've been talking only about you and the tension within you, because you are - not in a clichéd sense, but in a weirdly literal sense - the future. After you walk up here and walk back down, you're going to be the present. You will be the broken world and the act of changing it, in a way that you haven't been before. You will be so many things, and the one thing that I wish I'd known and want to say is, don't just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don't just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun. ~ Joss Whedon

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art. ~ Toni Morrison