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I'm gonna be in high school next year and I'm graduating soon.I need graduation quotations or sayings that are inspirational.Help!

"Never dry hump linebackers."

"Never help people." - Homer Simpson

"It's sort of sad that around a fifth of us will die in drunk driving accidents tonight. Atleast we had some fun together."

"The working people will rise and crush the capitalist oppressors!"

That was my brother's actual graduation quote. I found it rather hilarious.

"I'll make the trains run on time." Bunnito Mussulini

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

Marcus Aurelius.

"I laughed from the moment I picked up your book until the moment I put it down, some day I intend to read it." - Groucho Marx

no one actually pays attention to what people say when they graduate because its a horribly boring event for everyone whose not graduating, so say what ever you want, have fun with it

"No matter how far I go, I wanted you to know, my heart remains with you."
-Matchbook Romance

Here's another...

"Always encourage children. If a child gets an exceptionally difficult question correct, tell them it was a lucky guess. That way, they develop a good, lucky feeling."

"Alea Iacta Est"
"The Die is Cast"
-Gauis Julius Caesar

"Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat"
"Fortune Favors the Blood"
-Terence

"Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment."
-Joseph Addison

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit"
Perhaps someday we will look back upon these things with joy

"Fortes et liber"
"Strong and free"
-Alberta

' when i think back to all the crap i learned in high school...
it's a wonder i can think at all' ~ Paul Simon, Kodachrome

not surprisingly, the above has been nixed by more than one yearbook committee

' One day you'll look back, and you'll see
Where you were held now by this love.
While you could stand there,
You could move on this moment
Follow this feeling. ' ~ U2, Mysterious Ways

"My cats breath smells like cat food"

"My cats breath smells like cat food"
crayons taste like purple

crayons taste like purple

:D "The leprechaun tells me to burn things"

"Once when I was lost..... I saw a policeman, and asked him to help me find my parents. I said to him .... 'Do you think we'll ever find them?' He said. 'I don't know, kid ... there are so many places they can hide.' " -Rodney Dangerfield

:D "The leprechaun tells me to burn things"
no no thats "The blue ones taste like burning"

crayons taste like purple is from greg the bunny

no no thats "The blue ones taste like burning"

crayons taste like purple is from greg the bunny

Oh. :(

"Well, i'm an idiot."

"Im not sure what im looking for but its clear to see the purpose of my existence is laying here on front of me"
-Matchbook Romance

"If all else fails, you can close your eyes, and i'll be right beside you, i'll be there, by your side."
-Matchbook Romance

Sorry I am listening to a Matchbook Romance CD :fluffle:

"Dear Sarah: I watch you from my van."

MUAH!

"I feel like I've lost everything when you're gone, left remembering what it's like to have you here with me."
-Matchbook Romance

Life is a canvas, throw as much paint on it as you can
-Danny Kaye :)

"Dear Sarah: I watch you from my van."

That's a good one.

"Procrastination is like masturbation, it feels good while your doing it but sucks after you realized you fucked yourself."

"Funny story, I used to wear Spiderman PJ's to bed every night, then I woke up one morning and said to myself "Self, your to old for this spiderman bullshit." So I went to target the next day and picked up some Wolverine PJs cause man, that guy stabs people."

"I woke up this morning in a pool of my own feces. Needless to say, that's the last time I ever go to Chuck E. Cheese."

"I was at the market buying some raisin oatmeal cereal bars when a small boy asked me where the small plastic toy section was. I told him to purify his soul by drinking the waters of Lake Manixious, he just stood there like a braying jackass so i kicked his father in the balls bought all the plastic toys in the store, burned them all in front of him and gave him a stern warning."Don't fuck with me you little shit, He started to cry and i collected his tears in a jar. Despite never getting my raisin oatmeal cereal bars, i believe it was the best Arbor Day ever."

I take no credit for any of these.

"Everyone should wear cargo pants. Why? They're a lot more useful than purses or fanny packs, I'll tell you that, plus they're damned hard to pickpocket, making them perfect for you worryworts out there."

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Hey, I've got an entire word document of them that I had for my high school graduation several years ago. Just private message me and I can e-mail them to you.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn
from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent
disinclination to do so. -- Douglas Adams

"The faster you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up"

"There are only two things in existance that are infinite: The universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the first one." Albert Einstein.

"Highschool has certain proved Mr. Einstein's claim of the second one." -Lilith Patrol (pay-troll).

"If at first you don't succeed... pay somebody else to do it and have a beer." -- Me. Possibly 90% of human beings in the modern world have used the same saying with different words.

"Lord what fools these mortals be!"

Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
That is going to be my graduation quote.

"The early bird catches the worm... the early worm gets eaten."

" The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life"

"If you want Bitter, don't tip the waitress"

newcastle brown ale

http://www.quoteland.com/topic.asp

Figured I could recite all of these off of the website, but I'll leave it up to you to find one that best fits your personality. :-)

But here are a couple of favorites:

"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny." -Kim Hubbard

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." -Henry Ford

Life begins when you accept your fate -Greg Graffin

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education."

[Wilson Mizner]

"On a long enough time line, the survival rate of everyone drops to zero."

"It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense. They thus become part of the armies of the night, the purveyors of nitwittery, the retailers of intellectual junk food, the feeders on mental cardboard, for their ignorance keeps them from distinguishing nectar from sewage."

[Isaac Asimov, "The Armies of the Night"]

"Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiousity. My crime is judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something you will never forgive me for." -The Mentor

"It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense. They thus become part of the armies of the night, the purveyors of nitwittery, the retailers of intellectual junk food, the feeders on mental cardboard, for their ignorance keeps them from distinguishing nectar from sewage."

[Isaac Asimov, "The Armies of the Night"]
"It is exact because it is fashionable so that the Americans do not know any science, although can be well-educated of another way, who fall so easily imprisoned to the absurd one. They feel well thus to the part of the armies at night, purveyors of nitwittery, the retailers of the intellectual food of the scrap iron, the feeders in the mental fine cardboard, because its ignorance keeps them from the nectar that distinguishes of sewage."

[ Isaac Asimov, armies of "The of the Night" ]

Said the Abyss to Hamlet. Don't look too deeply into me. All I am is nothing and nothingness. I am but endless darkness and relentless silence. I am unmoving yet no dust settles herein. There are no answers here, warrior. Break your catatonic stare. Act now. Leave me forever and with the rest of your days, strike hard and decisively. Why let your fury lay deep inside you, sullenly boiling your blood into silent steam and grinding your bones to dust? Is it not better to thrust it out with great velocity from every pore, with your every action? Let your actions speak your legend. The physical is the manifestation of the spirit. Let your spirit be teeming with fury. Let your strength be unusual and contolled. The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who stem over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

-Henry Rollins, Solipsist

One of my favorite quotes ever. Abridge as you wish.

"High school's a flaming Hell. Anything after rests in its smoldering ashes."

"Faith is taking the first step without seeing the whole staircase"

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Hell is other people." Jean-Paul Sartre

Said the Abyss to Hamlet. Don't look too deeply into me. All I am is nothing and nothingness. I am but endless darkness and relentless silence. I am unmoving yet no dust settles herein. There are no answers here, warrior. Break your catatonic stare. Act now. Leave me forever and with the rest of your days, strike hard and decisively. Why let your fury lay deep inside you, sullenly boiling your blood into silent steam and grinding your bones to dust? Is it not better to thrust it out with great velocity from every pore, with your every action? Let your actions speak your legend. The physical is the manifestation of the spirit. Let your spirit be teeming with fury. Let your strength be unusual and contolled. The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who stem over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

-Henry Rollins, Solipsist

One of my favorite quotes ever. Abridge as you wish.
It said the abyss to the village. Watched of Don't too much deeply in me. Everything what I am is not nothing and nothingness. I am the only endless dark and implacable silence. Unmoving yet none settles of the attached dust. There are no answers here, soldier. Break his glance fixes catatónic. Act now. Leaves by always and with the rest of its days, idles lasts and decisive. Why it lets his fury put deep within you, sullenly boiling his blood in the quiet steam and grinding his bones to remove the dust? He is not better to push it towards outside with great speed of each pore, with his each action? Let his actions speak his legend. The verification is the manifestation of the alcohol. Let his alcohol spill with fury. Let to his force be unusual and contolled. The average is the border that maintains to mere men its place. Those that they come on the line are heroes by same the act. Go.

- Rollins Henry, Solipsist

One of my favourite quotations always. Be brief as you wish.

"Me fail English? That's unpossible!" - Ralph Wiggum

"Oregon smells"

"Much obliged to the good stoners at 4th and Main"

"I swear to drunk I'm not God!"

"Look Mom, Remember how you said that I'm a retard and would never graduate from High School because I'm so God Damn Lazy?"

"This school's chicks were all easy man! Their all sluts! Shit! I'm going to miss this whorehouse. Looks like now I got to pay for sex with prostitutes" :(

"Do you know why the girls toilet sinks were always filled with shit? Sorry gals, it was me all along."

"Solace comes from with in."

"Don't eat yellow snow?"

"Never be afraid to try something new, remember: Beginners built the Ark; Experts built the Titanic"

Always liked that one

"Life is OK, as long as you can have a sense of humour about it"

so-long and thanks for all the fish

"It's yours, and you can wash it as slowly as you like"

"No, not the ring; not th- AARGH!"
-some henchman from Spaceballs

"I slept with your girlfriend"
Works for both sexes.

A bit more on the serious side:
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"
-Oscar Wilde
Here's another one of his you could use:
"Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?"

"Alea Iacta Est"
"The Die is Cast"
-Gauis Julius Caesar

"Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat"
"Fortune Favors the Blood"
-Terence

"Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment."
-Joseph Addison

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit"
Perhaps someday we will look back upon these things with joy

"Fortes et liber"
"Strong and free"
-Alberta

Why is it you feel saying something in latin gives it more credit?

"Y helo thar!"

"LOL! WTF!?!?!"

"I R T3H UBER GR4D-U-ATE!"

I would love it if someone put any of those

"Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee."
-Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz

"Give me ten years and you will never recognize Germany again."
-Adolf Hitler

"These are actually bullet proof vest"
-Ziotah

"Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anyting that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in that order though."
-Douglas Adams.

Some of my favorite quotes.

We paid for Blood!!!!!

"Oh freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me as plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee."
-Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz

"Give me ten years and you will never recognize Germany again."
-Adolf Hitler

"These are actually bullet proof vest"
-Ziotah

"Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anyting that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in that order though."
-Douglas Adams.

Some of my favorite quotes.

My favorite Douglas Adams quote:

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Yeah, that's a good one. I also like the one that he opens The Hitchhikers Guide with. I can't find it right now but it's the one about how everyone on earth is unhappy on a ccount of a lot of little green pieces of paper, and about one man being nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be for everyone to be nice to each other. And when he tells people how to leave the planet by calling NASA, the white house, the Kremlin, and the Pope.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.

If youre going through Hell... keep going :)

"ive learned not to fearpeople, no matter who they are or what kind of guns they have." :sniper: :sniper: :sniper:


"Submit to my rule, useless weaklings!"

Why is it you feel saying something in latin gives it more credit?

Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.

Yeah, I'm a Latin student, and damned proud.

"I don't think much, therefore I might not be."
Got it off of a T-shirt...

Everything we have learned here will be obsolete by the time the incomming freshmen graduate. How does it feel to have wasted four years of your life?

My favorite quote of all time;

"Life is like a squirel; It's small, it's fluffy and it has a bushy tail." -Sal Lagonia

Experience is a wonderful thing: It allows you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. :headbang:

How about, "All your base are belong to us!"

How about, "All your base are belong to us!"

You could translate it into latin, then it would rock.

Anyway, here's another:
Art is I; Science is we

"I asked Nation States for quotes and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"

I made it! I really friggin made it!