# What quote did you use in your high school yearbook? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 16, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509 "2008-05-16T02:41:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/21 "2008-05-16T17:37:13Z")
I’m pretty sure I used two quotes, but I don’t have my yearbook handy and I can only remember one of them right now. “I might look like I’m doing nothing, but on a cellular level I’m really quite busy.” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/22 "2008-05-16T17:47:23Z")
“Morituri te salutamus”. (We who are about to die salute you, but I didn’t provide the translation). Looking back, this makes me look all morbid & goth-y, which couldn’t be further from the truth. I liked it just because it sounded cool, and more importantly: obscure. My 2nd choice: “You may be a lover but you ain’t no dancer.” Class of 1971. ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/23 "2008-05-16T19:16:53Z")
“What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters when compared to what lies within us.” - Emerson To my dismay, Jeff Morse used the same quote (He was in my class). I am still mad about this…Darn you, Jeff! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/24 "2008-05-16T19:17:20Z")
“I’m graduating from a Catholic School who forbids any expression of personality in its publications.” ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/25 "2008-05-16T19:39:59Z")
_I think, I think I am, therefore I am, I think._ ---
**Author:** ![AngryIrishLass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@AngryIrishLass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngryIrishLass)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/26 "2008-05-16T22:17:08Z")
We didn’t have quotes. Other than the general class quote which I’m sure was some 80s hair band tripe. Also, just as an FYI, don’t date the ex to the gal in charge of the editing of the yearbook. Your name will be spelled wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/27 "2008-05-17T01:04:27Z")
We just had a class photo. No individual ones. No quotes. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/28 "2008-05-17T17:44:35Z")
“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.” – Milton ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/29 "2008-05-17T18:19:01Z")
My yearbook didn’t have quotes, and I didn’t take a class picture (they even edited my name out of the index!). But a friend told me about his quote: “Give me an open filed and I can run forever.” John Riggins He made it up. Were I given an option, my favorite quote is: “…While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” Eugene Debs ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/30 "2008-05-17T20:17:08Z")
No quotes from us in my yearbook of 1976. The only thing we got to add was what we wanted to become in our adult life. Many of us thought hard on what to put because we were told, “No joke jobs!”. Half my class got upset that my “Camel Milker” job got into the yearbook and theirs got cut out. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/31 "2008-05-17T20:30:27Z")
Cogito, ergo cogito sum… ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/32 "2008-05-17T23:04:50Z")
Mine was, “I shall sail away to an island, become a cannibal queen, and eat all of my friends.” I didn’t honestly know what else to say. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/33 "2008-05-18T01:18:43Z")
‘‘We must laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.’’ Charles Bukowski. Still one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![jkusters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jkusters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkusters)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/34 "2008-05-18T01:59:29Z")
Graduated in 1984 from a Catholic high school that allowed quotes. Mine was an obscure quote from an obscure song from an obscure 80s new wave band… “Imagine yourself on the verge of committing An act that you’ve always found silly or strange” At the time, I was going through a lot of internal strife and struggle, wanting to become the “real me” but struggling to still try and fit in, both with society in general and my parents’ expectations. The quote was a multi-layered reference to this struggle. I imagined myself at that verge a LOT, but didn’t have the courage to act on it till my mid 20s. I still struggle with it in many ways. JOhn. ---
**Author:** ![Bob55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Bob55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob55)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/35 "2008-05-18T02:01:34Z")
“Well I’ve been down a time or two…but it never lasts long, I can always make it through on a wing…and a prayer…and a song” ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/36 "2008-05-18T05:08:34Z")
Quote I used: “It’s against my programming to impersonate a deity!” – C-3P0 Quote I’ll always regret not having been able to use because I hadn’t heard yet: “I dreamt I was back in uniform And a candidate for examination History - someone had blunder’d - And a voice rapped, ‘Knuckle under’ Living on the law just short of delusion When we fall in love, there’s confusion This must be the place I waited years to leave.” – Pet Shop Boys ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/37 "2008-05-18T05:51:48Z")
A quote from American artist Robert Henri: > [@](#): > > There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. If one could but recall his vision by some sort of sign. It was in this hope that the arts were invented. Sign-posts on the way to what may be. Sign-posts toward greater knowledge. I liked my friend Kevin’s quote better: > [@](#): > > Yep, that’s how your daddy looked. Now get to bed before I whup your little asses. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/38 "2008-05-18T06:19:17Z")
I honestly can’t remember what comes under my photo in my high school yearbook. And you know what? I’m very happy that’s the case 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![percussion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@percussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percussion)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/39 "2008-05-18T06:25:29Z")
[QUOTE=Barbarian] I honestly can’t remember what comes under my photo in my high school yearbook. And you know what? I’m very happy that’s the case 🙂 [/QUOTE] ditto ---
**Author:** ![EsotericEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@EsotericEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EsotericEnigma)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/40 "2008-05-18T18:25:25Z")
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