# Yearbook quotes...then and now

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**Created:** [June 8, 2001, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yearbook-quotes-then-and-now/68088 "2001-06-08T18:56:24Z")\
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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:** [June 8, 2001, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yearbook-quotes-then-and-now/68088/1 "2001-06-08T18:56:24Z")

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It’s that time of the year again. As I read my friend’s son’s year book ( :eek: ) I cast my mind back to the last days of high school (1985) and my choices for quotes.

I passed up the Springsteen classic

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

for the less strident Springsteen classic

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

I keep hoping for the day when that’s true. 🙂

Today I’m into the acceptance of lives and its ups and downs, so probably something from Ecclesiastes/“Turn Turn Turn”

1. What was your yearbook quote then?

2. What quote would sum up life over the past few years?

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yearbook-quotes-then-and-now/68088/2 "2001-06-08T19:08:10Z")

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Then:

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

Now:

Spend as much time as you can with the nice people; it barely begins to make up for the time you have to spend with the jerks.

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**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yearbook-quotes-then-and-now/68088/3 "2001-06-08T21:36:35Z")

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Then: The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt.

Now: see sig.

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**Author:** ![Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercury)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yearbook-quotes-then-and-now/68088/4 "2001-06-08T22:55:26Z")

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I’m graduating on Friday.

Now:  
“I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.” -Dick Gregory