Sometimes you encouraged us to run and sometimes you needed to hold in the reins - yet all the while you encouraged us relentlessly forward culminating in tonight - our graduation ceremony. And so the foundation of our elementary school education continued - day by day extending further. ![]() You never hesitated, you never gave up hope on any of us, you realized that every journey begins with a single step. Our thanks and appreciation must go to the Principal, the Staff, our Parents and the greater School Community. This gift, this ability to grow and go from strength to strength was patiently fostered and consciously inculcated by a significant number of people - people that we need to pay tribute to and thank. We have gone from strength to strength during our high school years and personified the ideal and vision of going for our personal best.albeit, some more diligently than others perhaps? The Graduating Class of _ at has certainly displayed a lot of heart and dare I say, even more "GO". Those are all the books referenced in the Rory Gilmore valedictorian speech.Good Evening Honored Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen and the Graduating Class of _.Ĭonfucius said, "Wherever you go, go with all your heart"! Rory is seen reading The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty in an earlier episode of Gilmore Girls. Other early Gilmore Girls episodes also reference Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility. Jane Austen is the classic author of six novels, the most popular of which is Pride and Prejudice. “Swann’s Way” refers to Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time (Vol. Of course, Anna Karenina is the protagonist in Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Reilly is the protagonist in A Conf ederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Huck and Finn are the main characters in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain While there are many books about Napoleon Bonaparte, this reference likely refers to War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, which are referenced during class at Chilton. The Pequod is the fictional Nantucket whaling ship in Moby Dick by Herman Melville, and the white whale is, of course, Moby Dick. “hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod” “I’ve been a resident of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County”Īuthor William Faulkner wrote several books set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County however, Rory is seen with The Sound and the Fury in an earlier episode of Gilmore Girls. More About the Books Referenced in the Rory Gilmore Valedictorian Speechīelow are snippets of all the literary references Rory makes in her speech, followed by more details about the book or books to which she is referring. (This would make a great yearbook quote for a book lover!) It’s a rewarding world, but my second one is by far superior.” – Rory Gilmore Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina and strolled down Swann’s Way. I’ve been a resident of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly”īooks Referenced in the Rory Gilmore Valedictorian Speechīelow is the quote with all the books referenced in Rory Gilmore’s valedictorian speech: ![]() “committed absurdities with Ignatius J.“hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod”. ![]() “I’ve been a resident of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County”.More About the Books Referenced in the Rory Gilmore Valedictorian Speech.Books Referenced in the Rory Gilmore Valedictorian Speech.
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