Text Examples for
Graduation

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca:
"Study not to know more, but better." .
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Robert Frost:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day:
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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Jack London, American Author:
"I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that flame burn out in a
brilliant blue blaze than it should be stilled by dry rot. I’d rather be a
superb meteor; every atom of me in a magnificent glow than a sleepy
and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist."
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Expression of dreams:
Dreams
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken winged bird
Afraid to fly
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams go
Life is a barren hill
covered with snow.
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Romans 5:1-8:
"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom we have gained access by faith
into this grace in which we now stand.
And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings,
because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
perseverance, character; and character, hope.
And hope does not disappoint us,
because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit,
whom he has given us.
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless,
Christ died for the ungodly.
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man,
though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
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Brita Fiksdal:
"Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want
to be — because you only have one life and one chance to do all the
things that you want to do."
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Ann Taylor:
"Who taught my infant lips to pray,
And love God’s holy book and day,
And walk in wisdom’s pleasant way?
My Mother."
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An old adage::
"A ship in a harbor is safe —
but that is not what ships were built for." Go for it, you have nothing to lose.
In times of indecision remember Yoda and his timeless wisdom —
"Do or do not, there is no try."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald:
"Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you."
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Mark Twain:
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do
than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the tradewinds in your sails.
Explore.
Dream.
Discover."
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Book of Philippians chapter 3, verse 14,:
"Every calling is great when greatly pursued."
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Graduation:
"If I ruled the world ..." Triumphantly, by going. through what we have and
doing what we've done, we can say, "we do rule the world." Now, the
only question is where shall we start?
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President John F. Kennedy:
"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans."
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Inuit song:
I think over again
My small adventures,
My fears.
Those small ones that seemed so big...
For all the vital things I had to get and to reach.
And yet, there is only one Great Thing.
The Only Thing.
To live to see the Great Day that dawns,
And the Light that fills the World.
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Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC):
"Education is the best provision for old age."
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Amanda Bradley:
Forget about the days
when it’s been cloudy,
but don’t forget your
hours in the sun.
Forget about the times
you’ve been defeated,
but don’t forget
the victories you’ve won.
Forget about mistakes
that you can’t change now,
but don’t forget the lessons that you’ve learned.
Forget about misfortunes you’ve encountered,
but don’t forget the times your luck has turned.
Forget about the days when you’ve been lonely,
but don’t forget the friendly smiles you’ve seen.
Forget about plans
that didn’t seem to work out right,
but don’t forget to always have a dream.
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Will Allen Droomgoole:
An old man, going a lone highway,
Came at the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm, vast and deep and wide,
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim —
That sullen stream had no fears for him;
But he turned, when he reached the other side,
And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near,
"You are wasting your strength in building here.
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again must pass this way.
You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build you the bridge at the eventide?"
The builder lifted his old gray head,
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followeth after me today
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him."
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Graduation Fun Facts:
Fun Facts

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin put together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of this year's incoming freshmen.

Here's this year's list:

The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1983.

They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.

Their lifetime has always included AIDS.

Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.

The CD was introduced the year they were born.

They have always had an answering machine.

They have always had cable.

They cannot fathom not having a remote control.

Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.

Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.

They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.

They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.

They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.

They never heard: "Where's the Beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel", or "de plane Boss, de plane".

They do not care who shot J.R. and have no idea who J.R. even is.

Michael Jackson has always been white.

McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.

They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.

Do you feel old yet? I like to think of it as "wise".
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