Though some of these wonderful remarks were given decades ago, we believe they are as relevant and important, perhaps increasingly so, as the more current speeches.

Words of wisdom from a selection of commencement speeches. ... It's commencement time for many college and university students across the country.

Commencement Speeches 2005; Every summer, C-SPAN offers a selection of the graduation season's college commencement addresses. ... PREVIOUSLY AIRED COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES ; THURSDAY, JUNE 2: ;

2006 Commencement Addresses ; Every summer, C-SPAN offers a selection of the graduation ... PREVIOUSLY AIRED COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES ; MAY & JUNE 2006: ; Sen. Barack Obama; Univ. of Massachusetts

motivational quotes from commencement addresses and practical life advice ... View the list of stellar commencement speeches as featured in the USA TODAY's article by Mary Beth Marklein. Read them,

Berklee College of Music: Past Commencement Addresses; Archive of past and current graduation speeches at the Berklee College of Music, including excerpts and video clips.

Most commencement speeches suggest you take up something or other: the challenge of the future, a vision of the twenty-first century. Instead I'd like you to give up.

Earlier today, in honor of the season (and Larry Tribe's "thank your parents for boning" NYU speech, at left), I shared my favorite commencement speech and asked for yours. ... By Richard Lawson,

I collect quotations for Avenues to Success, and have found college commencement speeches to be a fruitful source of wonderful thoughts to send the graduates into this challenging world of ours.Here ...

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.  ~Garry Trudeau;