# What quote did you use in your high school yearbook?

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/41 "2008-05-18T18:36:22Z")

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“Il faut cultiver notre jardin.” - Voltaire

It’s the famous last line of Candide, “we must tend our garden.” I liked it not only because of the message, but also because two of the things I was most known for in high school were French and gardening.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-quote-did-you-use-in-your-high-school-yearbook/449509/42 "2008-05-18T22:17:36Z")

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

I regret that I didn’t go with my first choice, because it captured my feelings about HS a lot better:

“For the ones who had a notion, yeah a notion deep inside  
That it ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive  
I wanna find one face that ain’t looking through me  
I wanna find one place  
I wanna spit in the face of these Badlands.”  
–Springsteen

But I was a good girl and played it safe.

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