I Need A Quote!!!! Please Help??

Question

I need a quote for my gradution speech

Answer 1

Here are some excellent high-minded quotes that will wow your fellow students and faculty!

"A word as to the education of the heart. We don't believe that this can be imparted through books; it can only be imparted through the loving touch of the teacher."

—César Chávez

"Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?"

—César Chávez

"The end of all education should surely be service to others."

—César Chávez

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

—Helen Keller

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

—William Butler Yeats

"When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built."

—Mark Twain

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

—G. K. Chesterton

"A child miseducated is a child lost."

—John F. Kennedy

"[My family] believed in the public school because they believed in a community. They believed the important thing was what was in your head. My grandmother was a schoolteacher. She taught in a one-room country school north of Anoka, Minnesota, and my grandmother had a certain contempt for people who made a great show and were not that bright. My grandmother said, 'Don't be a 10-dollar haircut on a 25-cent head.' You avoided that by going to school and paying attention. You became a worthwhile person and a member of the community."

—Garrison Keillor, radio humorist

"Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity."

—Deborah Meier, educator

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

—Malcolm S. Forbes

"Education is the vaccine for violence."

—Edward James Olmos, actor

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

—Benjamin Franklin

"A teacher affects eternity."

—Henry Adams

"Children need all school workers. A person is not 'just' a janitor, not 'just' a custodian. Janitors can see children when [teachers] don't see them, and bus drivers recognize that children who are disruptive on the bus are likely to be disorderly in the classroom. They're partners in education. We need each other to make this work."

—Rev. Jesse Jackson

"The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth."

—Dan Rather

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

—Cicero

"I like to think that the greatest success of any life is that moment when a teacher touches a child's heart and it is never again the same... Everything America is or ever hopes to be depends upon what happens in our school's classrooms."

—Frosty Troy, editor Oklahoma Observer

"There is a place in America to take a stand: it is public education. It is the underpinning of our cultural and political system. It is the great common ground. Public education after all is the engine that moves us as a society toward a common destiny... It is in public education that the American dream begins to take shape."

—Tom Brokaw

"Education is the transmission of civilization. Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned again by each new generation."

—David Kearns, former chair Xerox Corporation

"Fifty years from now it will not matter what kind of car you drove, what kind of house you lived in, how much you had in your bank account, or what your clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better because you were important in the life of a child."

—Anonymous

"Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness. To have knowledge, deep broad knowledge, is to know truth from false and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked men's progress, is to feel the heartthrob of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life."

—Helen Keller

"Knowledge is love and light and vision."

—Helen Keller

"Knowledge rests on knowledge; what is new is meaningful because it departs slightly from what was known before."

—Robert Oppenheimer

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

—James Madison

"By viewing the old we learn the new"

—Chinese Proverb

"No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest"

—T.S. Eliot

"All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars."

—Star Trek's Capt. James T. Kirk, "Gamesters of Triskelion"

"We grow accustomed to the dark, when light is put away."

—Emily Dickenson

"Excellence is achieved by the mastery of fundamentals."

—Vince Lombardi

"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."

—Peter F. Drucker

"Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est." ("Knowledge is power.")

—Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacrae. De Haeresibus.

"Knowledge and human power are synonymous."

—Francis Bacon

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

—Benjamin Franklin

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him."

—Benjamin Franklin

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

—Benjamin Franklin

"Non schola sed vita decimos" (Only the educated are free)

—Epictetus (AD 50-125)

"It's harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge."

—Arnold Glasgow

"The mind is the man, and knowledge mind; a man is but what he knoweth."

—Francis Bacon

"Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than his father Philip for giving him life."

—Thomas B. Macaulay

"The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.

—Aristotle

All men by nature desire knowledge.

—Aristotle, Metaphysics, bk. 1, ch. 1

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

—Plato

"Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty."

—Daniel Webster

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

—James Madison

"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

—Benjamin Disraeli

"Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council chamber of thought."

—St. Basil

"True expertise is the most potent form of authority."

—Victoria Bond, conductor

"A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being whose mind is not debauched will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge."

—Samuel Johnson

"To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave."

—Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), escaped slave, abolitionist, author

"The more the ignorance, the better the slave"

—Edmund Fairfield, President, Hillsdale College, July 4, 1853

"Et nunc, reges, intelligite, erudimini, qui judicati terram:

And now, kings, understand; you who decide the fate of the Earth, educate yourselves"

—Unknown

"Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."

—Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

—Margaret Fuller

The rest of these are a little crowded, but they are really good!!!

"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."

—B.B. King

"The further I go, the sorrier I am about how little I know: it is this that bothers me the most."

—Claude Monet

"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."

—George Santayana

"Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge."

—Sir Philip Sidney

"Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch."

—Steve Droke

"Let knowledge grow from more to more."

—Alfred Tennyson, "In Memoriam", Prologue, line 25

"Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams."

—Daniel Webster, address on laying the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument

"Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty."

—Daniel Webster, completion of Bunker Hill Monument

"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance."

—Confucius

"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."

—Peter

Answer 2

"Take a look around you and notice your aqquantinces, friends, and foes for these are the true people that you have known since Kindergarten. Congratulate everyone, for this may be the last day you shall ever lay on eyes on them unless you decide to go to school with each other or if you encounter again in years to come. But remember, to at least give your last good-byes to everyone so you do not regret this moment and so the memories will always comemmorated."

Answer 3

As I said before, I never repeat myself.

All I want is a warm bed, a kind word, and unlimited power.

Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.

As long as I can remember, I've had amnesia.

Constant change is here to stay.

Expecting the unexpected makes the unexpected become the expected.

Dyslexics of the world, untie!

Everyone hates me because I'm paranoid.

Floggings will continue until morale improves.

Give some people an inch, and they think they are rulers.

The dodo died. Then Dodi died, Di died and Dando died... Dido must be scared to death.

Answer 4

"Do one thing each day that scares you. This is how character is built." Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer 5

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Answer 6

I've got a list of em for you!

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

  - Evelyn Waugh

Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.

  - Peter da Silva

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

  - Dorothy Parker

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

  - James Baldwin

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

  - William Feather

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one h**l of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.

  - EB White

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

  - Benjamin Disraeli

I can't complain. Noone pays any attention when I do...

- Unknown

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.

  - Evan Esar

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

  - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

But I don't know if they'll be any good for a grad speech though...