Take This Advice
The Best Graduation Speeches Ever Given
Published on 1. April 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-4169-1596-6 (ISBN)
Description
"BE FREE, AND DANCE THROUGH LIFE."
-- YOKO ONO
"MAKE THE WORLD BEFORE YOU A BETTER ONE BY GOING INTO IT WITH ALL BOLDNESS."
-- SEAMUS HEANEY
"REMEMBER ALWAYS TO SIT UP STRAIGHT."
-- MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT
Take This Advice delivers thirty of the most powerful and inspiring commencement speeches given in the past ten years. With grace and humor, this generation's favorite artists and thinkers address graduates to celebrate an incredible achievement, and to let them know that life after school is not the end of the world -- in fact, it's the beginning.
"THIS IS YOUR TIME. TAKE IT ON."
-- TOM BROKAW
-- YOKO ONO
"MAKE THE WORLD BEFORE YOU A BETTER ONE BY GOING INTO IT WITH ALL BOLDNESS."
-- SEAMUS HEANEY
"REMEMBER ALWAYS TO SIT UP STRAIGHT."
-- MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT
Take This Advice delivers thirty of the most powerful and inspiring commencement speeches given in the past ten years. With grace and humor, this generation's favorite artists and thinkers address graduates to celebrate an incredible achievement, and to let them know that life after school is not the end of the world -- in fact, it's the beginning.
"THIS IS YOUR TIME. TAKE IT ON."
-- TOM BROKAW
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York, NY
United States
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
f-c cover
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4169-1596-6 (9781416915966)
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Sandra Bark is the author of Cheap & Easy: A Cookbook for Girls on the Go and editor of Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars: Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories and Writers Workshop in a Box. She lives in Brooklyn.