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1. “I’m only this far but only tomorrow leads my way.”

   - From the Dave Matthews Band song, “#41″

   posted by Callan on 9-12-2008 at 3:24 pm

2. My high school didn’t have a yearbook, but I always liked the quote “Sometimes you’re the bug, sometimes you’re the windshield.” I think it’s from a Mary Chapin Carpenter song.

   Michael
   Normal, IL

   posted by michael on 9-12-2008 at 3:27 pm

3. No quotes in my yearbook, but if I could-

   “Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?”

   posted by Ryan on 9-12-2008 at 3:29 pm

4. Hahaha! ‘Don’t Give Up, Don’t Ever Give Up.’ That was mine. Class of ’96.

   posted by Dylan on 9-12-2008 at 3:32 pm

5. I think when I was asked for a senior quote I gave a line from the Stones: “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes well you might find, you get what you need.”

   Not sure if the quotes were ever posted in the yearbook or not, I will have to check.

   Today, I would have to go with what was my number 2 pick back then, from the movie Hollywood Shuffle: “There’s always work at the post office.”

   “Where’s my bitches?” and “Ho cakes… ’cause Ho’s gots to eat, too.” were two other stellar quotes that I wanted to use from Hollywood Shuffle. But, seeing as I went to all-girls Catholic School… it was definitely out of the question.

   and yes, I’m old, graduated in ’93.

   posted by Renis on 9-12-2008 at 3:35 pm

6. “Life is hard, and so am I.”

   Draw from it what you will…

   posted by JLew on 9-12-2008 at 3:40 pm

7. “Dirty Larry- 50 bullets in your @$$ make your day…”

   posted by Joba on 9-12-2008 at 3:45 pm

8. Oh, dear. I ripped off Led Zeppelin. “Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on.”

   If I graduated today, I’d use the same quote. It just fits.

   Cassie
   Agawam, MA c/o ’03

   posted by Cassie on 9-12-2008 at 3:45 pm

9. My high school yearbook quote:
   “Never forget to dream. From dreams come inspiration and acheivement. All progress has come from those who have dared to dream.”

   My quote now would be:
   “Stop daydreaming and get to work.”

   posted by Jason! on 9-12-2008 at 3:46 pm

10. i don’t remember having a quote, and my yearbook is at my parent’s house … but one of my favorite quotes is: “I do not regret the things I’ve done, but those I did not do”

    I don’t know who originally said it, but I remember being exposed to it in Empire Records.

    posted by katie on 9-12-2008 at 3:48 pm

11. “Think you the worms will care, when anon they make a meal of you, whether you spent your moment sighing wigless in your chamber, or sacked the golden towns of Montezuma? Lookee, the day’s nigh spent; ’tis gone careering into time forever.”

    John Barth, “The Sot-Weed Factor”

    posted by HFTobeason on 9-12-2008 at 3:53 pm

12. “it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye”

    posted by maggie on 9-12-2008 at 3:56 pm

13. “It’s been swell, but the swelling’s gone down.”

    posted by Seth on 9-12-2008 at 4:01 pm

14. Does a quote from a yearbook ad count? My friends and I took out an entire page and centered it around this quote from Metallica:

    “So close no matter how far
    Couldn’t be much more from the heart
    Forever trust in who we are
    And nothing else matters.”

    posted by Lindsey on 9-12-2008 at 4:08 pm

15. ::cringe:: I used the ‘Litany against Fear’ quote from Dune.

    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

    A bit too long winded, though I have to say, I haven’t let fear lead me.

    Now a days, I would use the follow:

    “The reward for hard work done well, is more rewarding hard work.”

    posted by AGray on 9-12-2008 at 4:08 pm

16. Mine was from a They Might Be Giants song:

    “Now it’s over, I’m dead and I haven’t done anything that I want, or I’m still alive and there’s nothing I want to do.”

    I graduated in ’98. I used the quote due to the “grass is always greener” mentality I had. It was either that or a line from Spaceballs:

    “At last you have learned Evil will always triumph because Good is dumb.”

    posted by erak on 9-12-2008 at 4:10 pm

17. What I ended up using came from Joe Walsh.

    “I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do. Life’s been good to me so far.”

    I probably wouldn’t change much today, it still holds pretty much true. I did find it slightly chuckle-worthy that I could count about 30-40 people (out of a class of 200) use the quote “You laugh at me because I’m different, I laugh at you because you’re all the same.”

    posted by J.D. on 9-12-2008 at 4:13 pm

18. I managed to fit a few in my yearbook, but this is the one I still acknowledge

    “…the chance reading of a book or of a paragraph in a newspaper can start a man on a new track… and the result for that man can be an entire change of his way of life.” – Samuel Clemens

    If I did it today, I would have had some Carl Sagan quotes:

    “We began as wanderers and we are wanderers still.”

    “We’re made of star-stuff”

    posted by jokermage on 9-12-2008 at 4:18 pm

19. “I hope you had the time of your life”
    Time of your life, Green Day
    I would probably put the same quote if I had it to do over. Class of ’99.

    posted by Anthea on 9-12-2008 at 4:25 pm

20. “Hi, my name’s Josh, and THIS…THIS is my EGO.”

    posted by Josh on 9-12-2008 at 4:27 pm

21. Mine was the first sentence from A Tale of Two Cities.

    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way–in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

    The funny thing is I decided on it before my senior year went haywire and I ended up going to two different schools before the year was over, which is probably why they printed the whole quote instead of shortening it.

    posted by Samantha on 9-12-2008 at 4:31 pm

22. I used

    Only the curious
    have, if they live, a tale
    worth telling at all.
    – Curiosity by Alastair Reid

    posted by mer on 9-12-2008 at 4:36 pm

23. “I’m not dead yet.”

    Ala Monty Python, of course.
    My yearbook also had a section where the families of seniors could send in baby pictures with a dedication. My parents (unbeknownst to me) sent in a picture of a 4-year-old me not wearing pants. Keeping with the theme, they included the quote “And now for something completely different…”

    posted by Kathryn on 9-12-2008 at 4:39 pm

24. I didn’t have a quote in my year book. If I could choose one now, it would be: “Let the flesh instruct the mind.” by Anne Rice (Interview w/a vampire)

    or:
    “If you believe you have a foolproof system, you’ve failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.” Frank W Abagnale

    another Anne Rice quote (from Pandora): “It is I, and I alone, who must make of my new life a heroic tale.”

    “Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.” Lewis Grizzard

    “While it may be true that greatness is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration, without the inspiration its all just BO.” (not sure where this is from)

    “What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.” Aristotle

    “Intellectuals solve problems. Geniuses prevent them.” Einstein

    “I can see into the future but it may be a mirage.” Neil Young, Prairie Winds

    “Without a sense of direction, potential is often never realized.” Anna Huttenlocher

    “The man who speaks to you of sacrifice speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

    And my personal mantra: “Just because I don’t care, doesn’t mean I don’t understand.” by none other than Homer J Simpson

    ok, I admit it, I keep a book of quotes, and add some with almost every book I read.

    posted by Amanda on 9-12-2008 at 4:47 pm

25. We didn’t have a quote section, but I did sign a lot of yearbooks with “It’s been real. It’s been fun. Its been real fun.” Lame I know. I like to think I could come up with something more witty if I could do it over… but I probably couldn’t :)

    posted by tiffany on 9-12-2008 at 4:50 pm

26. The one that was in my yearbook was,
    “I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.” – Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

    Now I’d use this one…
    “Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

    posted by Kristen on 9-12-2008 at 4:57 pm

27. There were no quotes in my highschool yearbook – but if I could pick one today it would be:

    “…for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
    -Oscar Wilde

    OR

    “And now for something completely different!” -John Cleese

    posted by Ashley Kuropata on 9-12-2008 at 4:58 pm

28. 1996 – “Tomorrow is always coming yet never comes. So I live for today. I am the Master of Procrastination.”

    2008- “Insert stupid comment here”

    posted by Kris on 9-12-2008 at 4:58 pm

29. “The true measure of a man is not where he stands in times of comfort and convenience, but it times of challenge and controversy” MLK

    “Be a Fruitloop in a world of Cheerios” Not sure who said this one

    posted by Shane on 9-12-2008 at 4:59 pm

30. If I could go back in time and give myself a useful thought, it would be:
    “High school is NOT real life…not even close. Take a deep breath, and bend over.”

    If I were a high schooler putting a quote in a yearbook, it would be: “There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for, and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.”

    posted by Heather Dawn on 9-12-2008 at 5:01 pm

31. I graduated before Cat Stevens became known as Yusuf Islam, and my quote was from Peace Train: “I’ve been happy lately/Thinking about the good things to come/And I believe it could be/Something good has begun.”
    I’ll have to do some thinking on what I’d pick today….

    posted by Karen on 9-12-2008 at 5:21 pm

32. Mine was: “…made weak by time and fate, but strong in will; to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” – Tennyson

    I wanted to be really deep back then. I think today I’d pick the personal mantra of a good friend of mine… “It never doesn’t work out.” It’s true. Things may not necessarily work out how you want them to, but they always do somehow.

    posted by Allison on 9-12-2008 at 5:24 pm

33. Mine was “Roads!? Where we’re going we don’t need roads.” from back to the future but my good buddies was “Remember, the titans.”

    posted by Marty on 9-12-2008 at 5:27 pm

34. 1996: “If you’re good, they’ll give you all the work. If you’re really good, you’ll get out of doing it.”

    posted by Jim on 9-12-2008 at 5:30 pm

35. I think mine was a John Lennon quote. If I were to do it today it would probably be something from Dave Matthews, and not one of the more well-known radio Dave songs either. (I still like the Beatles, I just feel the John quote was a little. . . pretentious for my 18-year-old self.)

    posted by andrea on 9-12-2008 at 5:44 pm

36. 1975 – “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt on in your philosophy.”

    posted by Antinous on 9-12-2008 at 5:45 pm

37. Mine was so bad, I don’t remember it. What I do remember is being embarrassed enough about it that, in every book I signed, I look the time to cross out my quote with a sharpie. People were a little pissed.

    Right after I submitted my quote, I realized I would have rather had this one instead: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.” Still cliche, but I had (and still have) a fondness for Frost, thankyouverymuch.

    posted by NicoNicoNico on 9-12-2008 at 5:47 pm

38. I think mine was “What we do in life, echos in eternity” or something else from “Gladiator”

    posted by Kinglink on 9-12-2008 at 5:52 pm

39. “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.” – Emerson. Yes, I was the pretentious teenager who LOVED Emerson.

    posted by Nora on 9-12-2008 at 5:58 pm

40. Back then I would have used “Damn the Man, Save the empire!” (also from Empire Records)

    Today, I would say it the same thing, except in all caps, or “Down with homework” (old school Simpsons)

    posted by Maria on 9-12-2008 at 6:01 pm

41. Back in 1984, it would have been, “God is a concept by which we measure our pain.” John Lennon

    Even then, they knew better than to give me the chance!

    posted by Auntie Lovie on 9-12-2008 at 6:16 pm

42. “Additional Generic Yearbook Quote”

    posted by CJ on 9-12-2008 at 7:05 pm

43. I have no idea what my quote was and I’m not digging out the yearbook from my crappy high school to remember,

    BUT

    if I could pick a new one it would be Jimmy Buffett from Fruitcakes…

    There’s a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning!

    Indeed there is!

    posted by angela on 9-12-2008 at 7:14 pm

44. My high school yearbook quote:

    [insert cheesy emo/inspirational quote here]

    My first choice was, “Okay, so when do I get those four years back?” However, the stupid administration wouldn’t let me do that. So sad. My favorite quote from my class would have to be some kid who said, “This high school is like a tumor. It grows on you, but you still don’t want it there.” I LOL’d at that one.

    posted by Sandy on 9-12-2008 at 7:45 pm

45. I was yearbook editor one year, and spent more time weeding drug / sex / violence references out of yearbook quotes than I’d care to remember. (this was the year columbine happened. Administration was extra prickly about it.

    posted by Lerren on 9-12-2008 at 7:59 pm

46. “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be…” Robert Browning

    I have ALWAYS loved the Einstein quote “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

    posted by Lissa on 9-12-2008 at 8:41 pm

47. A few years ago I went to my cousin’s high school graduation in a tiny town in western Kansas. The class motto (which was on a giant banner above the stage) was “hakuna matata.” I think it was even spelled incorrectly: “hakuna motata.”

    posted by Lauren on 9-12-2008 at 9:03 pm

48. I just graduated last year, and our senior class motto was the charming “If you’re not first, you’re last.” On the initial ballot, the first ‘you’re’ was spelled ‘your’… lovely.

    posted by scoobnut on 9-12-2008 at 9:06 pm

49. Then – There is an art to flying. It is the ability to throw yourself at the ground an miss.
    -DNA

    We had strict character # limits, so I had to cut it down.

    Now – “No comment” IS a comment.
    -George Carlin

    posted by Jess on 9-12-2008 at 9:24 pm

50. mine was from paul harvey, “In times like these, it is helpful to remember there have always been times like these.” A little cynical but it worked.

    posted by katie on 9-12-2008 at 9:26 pm

51. “What the world needs is not more love, but more politeness.” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Then (c/o 71) and now.

    posted by Judy on 9-12-2008 at 9:27 pm

52. My senior quote was ‘They can conquer who belive they can.” RW Emerson.

    I was rather full of myself back then, but who isn’t in high school?

    posted by Annette on 9-12-2008 at 9:27 pm

53. “When it’s all said and done
    It’s real and it’s been fun
    But was it all real fun?”
    -Green Day, “F.O.D.”

    Ah, to be a teenager in the 90′s again.

    posted by Rachael on 9-12-2008 at 9:55 pm

54. “It’s time again. Pull up the violets and plant something more difficult to grow.”
    -James Schulyer

    posted by Julia on 9-12-2008 at 10:11 pm

55. “The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack”

    Rudyard Kipling
    The Jungle Book

    posted by Huevo Martinez on 9-12-2008 at 10:20 pm

56. “Traffic signs in New York are nothing but a rough guideline.”
    - David Letterman

    (I took out the stop sign in front of the school via geo metro)

    posted by Kate on 9-12-2008 at 10:29 pm

57. “And Your wisemen don’t know how it feels to be thick as a brick.”

    - Jethro Tull

    (Rock on!)

    In college I used: “Half my life is an act of revision.” – John Irving

    posted by Val on 9-12-2008 at 10:47 pm

58. Hope you enjoyed being a jock, I will soon be your boos, YOU ARE FIRED!

    posted by Nick on 9-13-2008 at 12:09 am

59. “When the facts change, my opinions change.” John Maynard Keynes

    Not an economist, but this strikes me as factual.

    recaptcha: for Ferderal (don’t suspect me)

    posted by marcus on 9-13-2008 at 12:37 am

60. my quote back then probably would have been something from einstein, but now it would definately be:

    “isn’t it a strange thing to realize that your entire life is based on the decisions of a teenager?” -stew, passing strange

    posted by meag on 9-13-2008 at 12:59 am

61. I haven’t graduated yet (2012!) but when I do I’m thinking some good ole LOTR:
    “Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai Menu!”
    It was Gimli’s battle cry at the Battle of Helm’s Deep, and I knew that without having read the books in years.
    Or the classic “The enemy’s gate is down!” from Ender’s Game.

    posted by Alec on 9-13-2008 at 1:02 am

62. mine was “choose a life, choose a job, choose a career- but why would i want to do a thing like that?” from Trainspotting.

    my best friend’s was “rhythm is my business”

    he found it in a 50′s year book and thought it was hilarious. which at the time, it was.

    posted by Em on 9-13-2008 at 1:03 am

63. Mine was from Oscar Wilde – “Experience is the name people give to their mistakes.”

    Or something very close to that.

    It still fits.

    posted by Aemi on 9-13-2008 at 1:36 am

64. i would use a quote by english footballer george best to represent how i’d hope to live my life:

    “i spent all my money on cars, booze, and birds (women). the rest i wasted.”

    posted by bill bob on 9-13-2008 at 2:56 am

65. “the time to hesitate is through, no time to wallow in the mire”

    this was in ’04. i was both obsessed with Empire Records and The Doors and I would probably still use the quote if given a chance.

    posted by liz on 9-13-2008 at 5:16 am

66. “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive . . .”And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about 100 miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.” — Hunter S. Thompson

    (Class of ’81)

    posted by Lisa on 9-13-2008 at 7:03 am

67. I wish I had been as big a Jimmy Buffett fan back then as I am now, for I surely would’ve picked a line from one of his many songs…

    …but, sadly, in 1989, I was still a fan of 70′s music, so mine was:

    “I’ve looked at life from both sides now.”

    Ugh.

    posted by Brucey on 9-13-2008 at 7:30 am

68. mine WAS:
    “love is free love me say hell yes” – i was a GIANT Chili Peppers fan.

    now it would defintiely be “Go lightly even though you feel deeply” from “Island” by Aldous Huxley. if someone could have penetrated my thick high school shell with that little tidbit i would have been a much less mal-adjusted teenager.

    reCAPTCHA: Drandt be
    what if i don’t want to be Drandt

    posted by mri on 9-13-2008 at 9:19 am

69. My yearbook (1994)did not have quotes. If it had, mine would have been:

    “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw

    And I believe that this quote would still be my choice today (it is the signature on all of my emails). I constantly strive to be the unreasonable (wo)man because otherwise there really would never be the potential for improvement.

    posted by Charlotte on 9-13-2008 at 9:30 am

70. I graduated in 2003. I am a HUGE Wizard of Oz fan and my quote was from that movie. “I know that if I ever go looking for my heart’s desire, I’ll never go any further than my own back yard. For if it isn’t there, I never really lost it.” It’s kind of a weird quote for me because it is somewhat serious and I am as far from serious as possible. If I could change it I think it would be the Mitch Hedberg quote “I wear a necklace to know when I’m upside down.”

    posted by Casey on 9-13-2008 at 11:16 am

71. “I can’t believe I put pants on for this.” I felt it was humorous for several reasons. 1. The picture was only a photograph from the waist up thus not necessitating pants. 2. Pants represent a large step in the dressing process. If I have to put them on, it had better be for a good reason. And, well high school was alright, but I am not sure it was worthy of the effort of putting on pants.

    Today, I don’t know. I still really like my quote, maybe it might be something like
    “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. It’s been years but still I fear that someday they’ll desert me. It’s hard yes I know, when it’s time to stand alone and no one understands you.” – Streetlight Manifesto

    posted by Nathan on 9-13-2008 at 1:37 pm

72. “Although we had numerous classes together and sat next to each other in many of them and rode the bus to and from school every day for the better part of 3 years and lived one house down from each other for 15 years, and gone to each others birthday parties we’ve never exchanged so much as a ‘Hello.’. Thank Og for that.”

    posted by Ben on 9-13-2008 at 1:55 pm

73. i had to submit a quote before i had the brilliant idea of writing all the ones that struck me down on index cards and posting them on my bulletin board. i don’t remember what i used, but if i had to pick now it would be a toss up between:
    “My concerns are universal, sometimes tasteless, frequently artless, but never dulling.” (Anthony Green)
    and
    “I quite naturally want to live so as to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and so as to satisfy simply and solely my intellectual capacity, which is only one twentieth my whole capacity for living.” (Dostoevsky, Notes From the Underground)

    when it came time to pick a yearbook quote, i had completely forgotten about both of them and ended up picking something completely forgettable and not at all representative of me.

    posted by Annie on 9-13-2008 at 2:01 pm

74. Mine was “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want” – Calvin and Hobbes. I still feel pretty good about it.

    posted by jobonga on 9-13-2008 at 3:09 pm

75. Mine was a line from Ben Folds Five “Philosophy”-I can’t remember the exact line-but my best friend’s was from BFF’s “Song for the Dumped”- “I want my money back.” Which is awesome because we went to public school.

    My best friend’s other best friend had “Once I was the King of Spain” from a Moxy Fruvus song.

    No idea what I’d have now…..

    posted by Kate on 9-13-2008 at 3:20 pm

76. No yearbook quote but my e-mail quote at the moment is: A dream alone will not make you anything but a dreamer. Success is in the effort. I don’t know who wrote it.

    posted by Karen on 9-13-2008 at 3:26 pm

77. Mine was also the Calvin and Hobbes quote “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” And I still believe it. Or at least I’m still a procrastinator.

    posted by Samantha on 9-13-2008 at 6:22 pm

78. I didn’t have to pick a quote, but if I did back in ’02, I KNOW I would’ve chosen this Cynthia Heimel line:

    “There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.”

    I still might pick that.

    posted by catherine ann on 9-13-2008 at 6:50 pm

79. “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart” – Confucius.

    At the time I thought it was a wonderful metaphor for us all going to college. Now I feel like it’s so generic.

    posted by sarah on 9-13-2008 at 7:07 pm

80. In this world you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.” Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
    Elwood P. Dowd

    posted by BobT on 9-13-2008 at 8:19 pm

81. “But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there… And all that cal.”

    -Anthony Burgess, spoken by the narrator of A Clockwork Orange

    Class of ’05.

    I didn’t much care for high school, and I was really excited to leave.

    posted by Goose on 9-13-2008 at 8:28 pm

82. “May the warm tongue of Freedom gently lick your inner ear.”

    Paul Kantner
    ‘Blows Against The Empire’

    posted by appledoc on 9-14-2008 at 6:02 am

83. “Don’t worry, we’re in no hurry; school’s out. What did you expect?”

    - Pavement, ‘Range Life’

    Andi & Mandy class of ’95
    Berea, OH & Burlington, VT

    posted by andi on 9-14-2008 at 10:25 am

84. I don’t remember the exact quote but it was something along the lines of:

    “One out of four Americans have some sort of mental disorder. Think of your three closest friends. If it’s not one of them it’s you.”

    posted by Jasmine on 9-14-2008 at 1:37 pm

85. “What you own is your own kingdom, What you do is your own glory, What you love is your own power, What you live is your own story”

    -From “Something For Nothing” by the greatest Canadian band ever, Rush!!
    c/o 84

    posted by Mike H on 9-14-2008 at 1:54 pm

86. “I want to go home, take of this uniform and leave the show.” – Pink Floyd

    I went to a military school.

    posted by Scott-O on 9-14-2008 at 3:15 pm

87. “If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.” – Albert Einstein

    Class of 2006, AHS

    posted by Jillian on 9-14-2008 at 4:03 pm

88. “Yes to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
    silhouetted by the sea,
    circled by the circus sands,
    with all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
    let me forget about today until tomorrow”
    -Bob Dylan

    posted by Grace on 9-14-2008 at 4:16 pm

89. “I believe in luck, the harder you work the more luck you seem to have”-Jefferson, I think..

    posted by Cara on 9-14-2008 at 5:00 pm

90. A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved – Kurt Vonnegut.

    C/O 04

    posted by Jeremy on 9-14-2008 at 8:55 pm

91. Goose,

    isn’t that from the ‘final chapter’ that Kubrick neglected to include in the film?

    posted by Amy on 9-14-2008 at 10:33 pm

92. Mine was lame – “A dingo ate my baby!”
    It entertained us no end in my senior year.

    Now it would probably be Hanlon’s Razor – “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity”.

    posted by dangermouse on 9-14-2008 at 10:56 pm

93. My senior yearbook quote was “Without music, life would be a mistake,” which is apparently Nietzsche, though I don’t think I knew that at the time.

    Now I would probably choose this quote attributed to Dante: “The darkest places in Hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”

    posted by Ms.Prufrock on 9-15-2008 at 12:30 am

94. “To Do is To Be” Descartes
    “To Be is To Do” Voltaire
    “Do Be Do Be Do” Sinatra

    now it would be…
    “Next time, Next time beware…”

    posted by KevinL on 9-15-2008 at 1:33 am

95. “I’ve had a great time, but this wasn’t it.” -Groucho Marx

    Ft. Oglethorpe, GA
    class of 2002

    posted by Danita on 9-15-2008 at 7:06 am

96. Stand up for the stupid and crazy…

    Walt Whitman

    posted by Alex on 9-15-2008 at 9:55 am

97. I thought I was really deep and smarter than my classmates, so mine was “I feel a distance, I feel far away” from Robert Deniro in The Deer Hunter.

    I think now I would have to go with something from the greatest TV show ever cancelled, Freaks and Geeks. “You cut me off mid-funk!”

    posted by Chris B on 9-15-2008 at 10:21 am

98. I graduated in 1999, so I’m not surprised that there are a few “Wear sunscreen!” quotes in my yearbook.

    The one I used was “Eat, drink, and be merry” – Dave Matthews. And honestly, I’d still use it today.

    posted by Mel on 9-15-2008 at 11:51 am

99. “You determine the way people treat you by the way you respond to their actions” – Caroline Hax (advice columnist)

    Class of 2004

    posted by Bri on 9-15-2008 at 11:55 am

100. My all time favorite yearbook quote:

     “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!”
     -Homer Simpson

     posted by Patrick on 9-15-2008 at 11:55 am

101. We had to give advice to underclassmen in ’03. Mine was from Mark Twain: “Clothing makes the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.” Our class quote was also Twain’s: “I’m glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.”

     posted by Audrey on 9-15-2008 at 12:29 pm

102. I didn’t have a quote on my high school yearbook, but we had senior t-shirts in college and I picked the quote that went on those:

     “It’s time to move on,
     It’s time to get going,
     What lies ahead I have no way of knowing, but under my feet, baby, the grass is growing,
     Yeah, it’s time to move on,
     It’s time to get going.”
     -Tom Petty

     Millikin University
     Decatur, IL

     posted by Jodi on 9-15-2008 at 12:59 pm

103. I used a quote that I believe is from Dr. Seuss, but so did the person right next to me in the yearbook…it was quite tramatizing…

     “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

     posted by Danyele on 9-15-2008 at 1:17 pm

104. my current quote follows along the lines of Hitchhikers Guide

     Some one asks “I have a question”, I respond with “The answer is 5″

     I find in the buisness world 5 fits much better – it represents a middle of the road answer so it is neither right nor wrong.

     My husbands current favorite quote is

     “You can’t fix stupid”

     posted by Beth on 9-15-2008 at 2:24 pm

105. “Now I know and knowing is half the battle” – GI Joe

     posted by Joe on 9-15-2008 at 3:27 pm

106. I was actually working in a library for an independent study class the day we got to put in quotes, and I always found it ironic that I would have had an unlimited number of choices had anyone simply asked me. One I absolutely got sick of seeing was “What a long, strange trip it’s been” by the Grateful Dead. Like anyone in my 2001 class really understood the Grateful Dead.
     I’m not entirely sure what I would have said had they actually asked me.

     reCAPTCHA: blanket Melodie

     posted by bas on 9-15-2008 at 3:52 pm

107. I graduated in 2007 and they let us pick our own short quotes. Luckily I have a twin sister, so we were able to have a little bit of fun with it.

     Her quote was: “Always remember that the harder it gets, the better the experience will be.”
     My quote: “That’s what she said” -Michael Scott

     posted by Will on 9-15-2008 at 3:58 pm

108. My quote was “Chickens don’t clap!” from Arrested Development.

     My mother nearly killed me.

     posted by emily on 9-15-2008 at 5:10 pm

109. I graduated in ’99, and mine was:
     Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens
     -J.R.R. Tolkein

     posted by Lesley on 9-15-2008 at 9:32 pm

110. Didn’t have quotes in my yearbook, but if I was to do it now, my quote would be my mantra:
     Know yourself. Be yourself. Respect yourself. Impress yourself. And never settle.

     posted by Richard on 9-16-2008 at 1:28 am

111. “I let the dogs out”

     Seriously. That’s in my yearbook.

     posted by Ryan on 9-16-2008 at 11:37 am

112. “Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.” It’s a quote from “RENT.”

     posted by M on 9-16-2008 at 5:33 pm

113. “They said there’d be door prizes”

     posted by Michael on 9-16-2008 at 5:49 pm

114. We didn’t have individual quotes. The senior class had a class quote, and ours was a Gandhi quote that I cannot remember despite being from the relatively recent Class of ’05. What I DO remember is that the class, in a completely fair and proper vote, chose the quote “Business up front, party in the back”, but after the principal got wind, she made us change it to the “more suitable” Gandhi quote.

     posted by Bri on 9-17-2008 at 12:55 am

115. Mine was “I never know what’s going on.”
     Sadly, not much as changed… sigh.

     posted by ccrow on 9-17-2008 at 12:01 pm

116. I’m glad that I’m not the only one who ripped off lyrics for my yearbook quote. “For now I’m standing here, I’m awaiting this Grand Transition. The future is but past forgotten on the roads to madness.”

     Reading it now, it sounds like I was on my way to be institutionalized. . .I wasn’t.

     posted by MrsHashBrown on 9-17-2008 at 12:25 pm

117. I graduated ‘way back in 1956, and my quote was then (and still WOULD BE!)from Plato:
     “A fit of laughter which has been indulged to excess almost always produces a violent reaction.”
     Robin FG, Montreal, Canada

     posted by Robin FG on 9-17-2008 at 12:31 pm

118. My yearbook quote was “If you haven’t got a sense of humor, you’re better off dead.” It’s from Roger Rabbit.

     If I had to do it over again, and use a different quote, it might be “You gotta look out for No. 1, but don’t step in No. 2″ from Back to School.

     posted by Mike on 9-17-2008 at 2:50 pm

119. I borrowed from Shakespeare – All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

     If I was putting it in now, I’d use “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should just get used to it.”

     Oh, class of ’83 (and how many of the class of 9_ were saying they were old???)

     posted by Misha on 9-17-2008 at 11:29 pm

120. “On the roller coaster of life, there are ups, there are downs, and sometimes people throw up on you.”

     posted by Ryan on 9-19-2008 at 10:41 am

121. Is this the Stairway to Heaven or the Highway to Hell….
     Ok, this wasn’t mine, but that of a classmate friend…

     posted by Claudia on 9-19-2008 at 2:46 pm

122. “if this were presented on stage it would be condemned as an improbable farce”.

     1976 – I was a “bisentimental” adugrate.

     WHOOHOO – Go Kingswood/Cranbrook!!

     posted by LALALA on 9-20-2008 at 7:53 am

123. “The world is full of Kings and Queens
     Who blind your eyes
     And steal your dreams
     It’s heaven
     It’s Hell”

     I think they are Black Sabbath lyrics?

     posted by Lars on 9-20-2008 at 4:05 pm

124. I graduated in 2004 and my quote was:

     “If you were a hot dog and you were starving, would you eat yourself?”

     It was a quote from Will Ferrell in his early days on SNL. I’m not sure what I was thinking but most people weren’t surprised I put something like that in there.

     posted by Lauren on 9-21-2008 at 2:13 pm

125. “Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny” – Bruce Springsteen

     And yes 1988 does seem funny now. So does what was important to your typical high school student.

     posted by Jay on 9-22-2008 at 10:28 am

126. I remember perusing quotationspage.com for a good couple of hours before settling on this one:

     “Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.”
     -Brendan Gill

     It is now my favorite quote because it perfectly describes my mentality.

     posted by Nicole on 9-24-2008 at 12:20 am

127. i used a line from a beatles song… i am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together/.. it worked well for the class of ’99 and i think i would still use it today…
     if i had to choose another one i would use “you laugh because i’m different. i laugh because you’re ugly”

     posted by aimee on 9-24-2008 at 12:03 pm

128. “I’m calm now…I’ve calmed down…but I’m shaking” I think it’s from a Jesus Lizard song. Gosh, I was so mysterious! Pft!

     posted by Megan on 9-27-2008 at 9:38 pm

129. Want pretentious? “Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit”- Vergil It means, “Perhaps one day it will please us to look back on this.”

     posted by Jacqueline on 10-15-2008 at 7:10 pm

130. This quote was an inside joke between me and my best friend who rescued me from near certain expultion from boarding school in the late ’70′s. The quote is from Danny O’Keefe (more famous for “Goodtime Charlie’s Got The Blues”).

     “When I pull my pants down
     You can barely hear them say:
     Don’t go looking for trouble,
     It will find you anyway”.

     posted by Anthony Becker on 11-2-2008 at 11:05 pm

131. After High school it was:
     ” I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.”

     After grad school it was:
     “Theory and practice are the same in theory, but are different in practice.” – unknown

     Today it would be:
     ” If I had my life to live over, I’d live over a deli. ” – Woody Allen?

     posted by John on 9-3-2010 at 12:14 pm

132. “wait, so i can say anything here and it’ll be in the yearbook?”

     frankly, i wouldn’t change it at all.

     posted by victoria on 10-6-2010 at 7:39 pm

133. Look at your yearbook picture. Now look at mine. Now back to yours now back to mine. Unfortunately it’s not yours, but you could look like me. Look at the person next to you, now back to you. Viola, your picture is now me. I’m on the cover.

     posted by NJ on 6-2-2011 at 8:29 pm

134. In highschool, I actually forgot to submit a yearbook quote and/or dedication. Looking back on it, I’m glad I did.

     I was looking through my senior yearbook and it’s full of so many cringe worthy quotes that I know I’d be kicking myself today for whatever I submitted. Why did everyone take it so seriously???

     posted by JS on 8-31-2011 at 6:31 am

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