Sayings and Quotes

Here are some more graduation quotes for the young graduate out there..

Startig with this simple poem like quote:
“The future lies before you
Like a field of driven snow,
Be careful how you tread it,
For every step will show.”

“Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.”
~Richard Halliburton

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
~Tom Bodett This is adapted for the saying that says, Life is a Hard Teacher, it takes exams first and lessons afterwards.

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. ”
~Les Brown

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
~ Frank A. Clark

“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.”
~Edward Koch

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ”
~Oscar Wilde

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
~ Sparrowrose Howard Thurman

“Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.”
~Erma Bombeck

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
~ Aristotle

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
~ Aristotle

“When you leave here, don’t forget why you came. ”
~Adlai Stevenson

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”
~ Sarah Caldwell

“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ”
~Wendy Wasserstein

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
~Paulo Coelho

“The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. ”
~Newton D. Baker

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest”
~ Benjamin Franklin

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ”
~B.F. Skinner

“A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.”
~ Michael Garrett Marino

Here are some blindness quotes by some great persons not excluding quotes and sayings by a great blind person.

I have only one eye,–I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal!
~Lord Horatio Nelson

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness
~ Helen Keller

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God
~ Blaise Pascal

Their blindness and arrogance are as solid as an iron mountain
~ Martin Luther

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
~Vachel Lindsay

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn’t there.
~Thomas Hardy

Love comes from blindness; friendship from knowledge.
~Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness
~ William Watson

There’s no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
~Grantland Rice

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
~Margaret Atwood

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman . . .
~ Charles Dickens

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
~ Ralph Ellison

These are some inspirational quotes on Music.

Without music life would be a mistake.
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
~Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
~Oscar Wilde

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music
~Sergei Rachmaninov

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~Aldous Huxley,

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
~Giuseppe Mazzini

When I don’t like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely.
~ Florent Schmitt

Where words fail, music speaks.
~Hans Christian Andersen

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
~ Thomas Carlyle

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
~Bob Marley

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.
~Frank Zappa

You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn’t played.
~ Miles Davis

I’d like to get something together – like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I’d be happy.
~ Jimi Hendrix