Favorite Alumni Quotes
 

We thought it would be fun, and informative, to provide a page where classmates could post their favorite quotes, proverbs, sayings or other words of wisdom they've come across over the years. Perhaps something that has had an impact on your life, caused you to re-think your values or simply made you laugh. Do we have your favorite quote or saying? You can submit it here.
 

"Tell everyone that you love that you love them every chance you get. Life is unpredictable!"

Author - Unknown
Submitted by - Karen Cately (Johnson)

"C'mon, let's do this!"

Author - Ray Lewis

Submitted by - Susan DiSalvatore

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it"

Author - Mark Twain

Submitted by - Judy Morrison

"I haven't changed since high school and suddenly I'm uncool."

Author - Homer Simpson

Submitted by - Chuck Andreatta

"Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today"

Author - Unknown
Submitted by - Doug Goldsmith as often quoted by Grace Henry

"Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor."

Author - Stephen Sondheim (Into The Woods)
Submitted by - Sue Rudnick Webber

"Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved."

Charles A. Lindbergh (The Spirit of St. Louis)
Submitted by - Rick Henry

"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive!"

Author - Bugs Bunny
Submitted by - Brad Murray

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

Author - Robert Brault
Submitted by - Wayne Boswell

"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but moments."

Author - Rose Kennedy
Submitted by - Doug Goldsmith

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Author - Abraham Lincoln
Submitted by - Camille Goldberg McIntosh

"How despicable and ignoble war is. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

Author - Albert Einstein
Submitted by - Wayne McCullough

 
"Friendship is an idea, not an invention, a pledge, not a promise and (with any luck at all) a lifetime, not merely a season."

Author - Rod McKuen
Submitted by - Leslie Sheppard

"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose."

Author - Janis Joplin
Submitted by Danny Muffoletto

"Now & never are not the same, but they are not different."

Author - Lao Tse
Submitted by Danny Muffoletto

 
"Let it be known there is a fountain that was not made by the hand of man. Ripple in still water."

Author - Hunter/Garcia
Submitted by Danny Muffoletto

 
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light."

Author - Jesus
Submitted by Danny Muffoletto

 
"All you need is love."

Author - Beatles
Submitted by Danny Muffoletto

"You never have as many friends as when you are 12 years old"

Author - Stephen King
Submitted by Doug Goldsmith

"Get me a Corona...will ya...."

Author - David Walsh to Doug Goldsmith at Tiber River Tavern
Submitted by Doug Goldsmith

"Only by losing something so dear can you realize it's value......."

Author - Unknown
Submitted by Doug Goldsmith

"Should there be this much water inside the canoe.."

Author - Rick Griffith to Doug Goldsmith
Submitted By Doug Goldsmith

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."

Author - Mark Twain
Submitted by Mike Lewis

"Yesterday is gone, never to return; tomorrow is promised to no one; today is a gift, that's why we call it the present."

Author - Unknown
Submitted by Horace Bearzi
 

"T'aint all beer and skittles, mate!"

Author - Pogo
Submitted by Mike Frentz

As said to Chris Marriott in the hospitality room in the wee hours of Sunday morning..... "Are you sure three more cases will be enough"

Author - Doug Goldsmith
Submitted by Doug Goldsmith
 

Frodo: "I wish the Ring had never come to me...I wish none of this had happened".
Gandalf: "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide...All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us".

Author - J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
Submitted by Mark Lange

"Keep on playing that Rock N' roll...till the day that your body grows old."

Source - Bill Hunt (1973 Totem)
Submitted in Memoriam

"I like to see people happy."

Source - John Gray (1973 Totem)
Submitted in Memoriam

"You never know who you are until you try to share yourself."

Source - Don Grace (1972 Yearbook)
Submitted in Memoriam

"I live from day to day never knowing what I'll do next."

Source - Barbara Fairbank (1973 Totem)
Submitted in Memoriam

"Love is beautiful."

Source - Gail Biedenkapp (1973 Totem)
Submitted in Memoriam

"We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know their origin -- who they are. God tells man who he is. God tells us that He created man in His image. So man is something wonderful."

Author - Francis Schaeffer (Escape From Reason)
Submitted by - Mark Lange

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