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.”
“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.
“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!
“I’m graduating from a Catholic School who forbids any expression of personality in its publications.”
I think, I think I am, therefore I am, I think.
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.
We just had a class photo. No individual ones. No quotes.
“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.” – Milton
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
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.
Cogito, ergo cogito sum…
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.
‘‘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.
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.
“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”
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
A quote from American artist Robert Henri:
I liked my friend Kevin’s quote better:
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
ditto
“No matter who you are or what you do, as long as I live there’s someone better than you.” -Me.