Quotes & Sayings

“Going to church doesn’t make you a christian, anymore than sitting in the garage makes you a car”
Andrew Harless senior quote

All love that has not friendship for its base,
is like a mansion built upon the sand”
A good  senior quote by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back”
Woody Allen senior saying

“If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average”
One in the series of success quotes by M.H. Alderson

“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought”
John F Kennedy saying

“We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play”
Quotations on History by Régis Debray

“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it”
Saying about a senior by W. Somerset Maugham

“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment”
Humour quote by Grenville Kleiser

“The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell”
War quote by Hermann Hagedorn

“If I were asked to enumerate ten educational stupidities, the giving of grades would head the list… If I can’t give a child a better reason for studying than a grade on a report card, I ought to lock my desk and go home and stay there”
Education saying by Dorothy De Zouche

“If you talk to your children, you can help them to keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams”
Quotations by Jim Rohn

“It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; ’tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new”
Good senior quote by Benjamin Franklin

“We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light”
Senior saying by Earl Nightingale

“You can get all A’s and still flunk life”
School quote by Walker Percy

“The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room”
Hamilton Wright Mabie quote

“There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere”
Psychology saying by C.G. Jung

” It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they’re out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle’s simplicity and the precision with which it is made. Or because they like the feeling of being able to hurtle through air one minute, and saunter through a park the next, without leaving behind clouds of choking exhaust, without leaving behind so much as a footstep”

“Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile”
Senior quote by Oscar Wilde

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi”
Senior quote by Oprah Winfrey

“Many a boomerang does not return but chooses freedom instead”
Freedom quote by Anonymous