Richard Bach Quotes

You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.

Commencement Day has a sobering finality in that it's the end of the prescribed path.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Graduation is not the conclusion of an achievement but simply the ending of one chapter and the beginning of another chapter

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

Leaving high school. It's sad and you're going to miss all your friends. You're going to miss your life and you've been doing that for the past four years, and it's comfortable. But now, there's something possibly bigger on the horizon, just new and fresh and exciting. I think we all kind of felt like that.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

I left for New York three days after graduation.

In terms of filming, yes, it really does feel over now. There's a real sense of freedom now. It's a good time to finish, I think. As much as I'm going to miss it I'm ready to move on and do different things.

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

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.

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

There is always a time to move on.

Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The year 2012 is an important one for mankind, a pivotal year. The potential for this exists in the mere fact that the majority of us are yearning for change.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

Life is just an ongoing process.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

I think it's like a relay race. You run, and you hand over the baton, and your kids pick it up. They take the stuff they want, throw the rest away, and keep running. That's what life is about.

It was good I left Brighton on a high, like I left Palace on a high but whether Carlisle to Rochdale or Brighton to Palace, as soon as I left that chapter was closed.

When I got to Oak Hill, I got a chance to learn. I learned a lot about myself, basketball and about school. If would have stayed in Texas, I probably wouldn't have graduated.