<p>So my legacy depends on my yearbook quote choice and I know we all have more pressing issues but I don't want to look back in 20 years and say:"if only I had gone with the other quote, tings might have been different..."
Any thoughts would be much appreciated! And if none of mine move you towards "yea, that's not half bad" then I'm all ears to anything you might propose
1)I want to dance, I want to win. I want that trophy, so dance good (uma thurman pulp fiction)
2)There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path (The Matrix)
3a)Dare to be yourself.(Andre Gide)
3b)What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself (Andre Gide)
4)Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion! (Wedding Crashers)</p>
<p>I say, keep looking, although the second Gide is decent...</p>
<p>I like that first one: "If only I had gone with the other quote, things might have been different..."</p>
<p>That is HEAVY! Reminds me of "The road not taken..."</p>
<p>^^^ :) </p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>I like the matrix one.</p>
<p>You're actually going to care about what your senior quote is when you're looking at your HS yearbook a year from now? I don't. Mine was "Enjoy today because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come". It's from a poster I have in my room at home. Your HS senior quote is not something to obsess about later in life. I like the Matrix one too, but if you don't go with any of these quotes you've shown us, don't use one that is an inside joke with friends. Trust me, you'll remember the meaning of it in a year, but when you go to your first reunion in ten years, you won't remember what it meant.</p>
<p>we dont even have senior quotes</p>
<p>Huh. We don't take senior quotes too seriously at my school. Well, we do, but in a different way. Usually the quote is something the person said during the year that was particularly memorable. As in, it's a quote by them, and not by somebody else.</p>
<p>I came out this year when a kid asked if I was gay. I said, "Yes, I am...and yes, you can watch." My friends want that to be my senior quote now.</p>
<p>Hm.</p>
<p>I think not :D. I better say something else and fast.</p>
<p>Your quotes are ok. The second one is the best. I've also always liked, "Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin."</p>
<p>Anyway, I'd rather have my quote be some inside joke I don't get in 10 yrs than some random inspirational saying. I want it to be about highschool, about now...so it reflects who I am as a HS senior, who my friends are, my life at this moment. If I don't get it in 10 yrs, then that will only go to show how much I've changed and grown. So I suppose I'm ideologically opposed to the choices you've come up with.</p>
<p>My preference is #2, the matrix one</p>
<p>Shows the difference between kids and parents. The Matrix quote sounds really hackneyed to me (as do most of the others, although I kind of like the Pulp Fiction one). I join NJres, however, in liking best the following:</p>
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<p>I agree. If you think about it, its essentially saying "in 20 years, i want to be happy enough that i wont wonder if i would be happier had i chosen a different path"</p>
<p>I join in the growing acclamation for the "if only I had gone with the other quote" thing. Other than that, I like 3b.</p>
<p>Yet another vote for "If only I'd gone with another quote...." Although maybe I'm not the best person to ask; I'm only two years out of high school, and I'm already horribly embarrassed about my senior quote.</p>
<p>mine was by abe lincoln, "the best thing about the future is it comes one day at a time."</p>
<p>i liked it. i picked it out pretty much the day it was due.
dont stress.</p>
<p>Shows the difference between kids and parents. The Matrix quote sounds really hackneyed to me (as do most of the others, although I kind of like the Pulp Fiction one). I join NJres, however, in liking best the following:</p>
<p>You know, I thought there would be a difference between what parents chose and what kids did but then since OP posted in the parents forum, decided I'd enter the poll!</p>
<p>My son, shooting himself in the foot again, chose, "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education," from Albert Einstein. Great quote, but probably the wrong place to use it.</p>
<p>I had several quotes, but the one that really makes me cringe now is this one - talk about over the top!</p>
<p>Only those few black swans, I must except: who ... behold death without dread, and the grave without fear; and embrace both, as necessary guides to endless glory. - Sir Walter Raleigh</p>
<p><em>laughing mathmom</em></p>
<p>I can perhaps top yours...mine was from Pearl Buck:
"We are the fruit of all who have come before us; the flower of our ancestry, the proof of our faith."</p>
<p>I don't think parents can pick quotes for kids though...for elementary school, I wanted S to use "Of those to whom much is given, much is required" from JFK. He chose "Do or do not, there is no try"....from Yoda.</p>
<p>I'm not even asking about this year's senior quote.</p>
<p>My quote was something in French, which meant maybe a handful of people were able to read it! It wasn't too bad, having to do with dreaming and realizing the dream. But, hey ... as soon as everyone read the quotes, they ceased to be relevant. Here's the honest truth about stuff like senior quotes --- after graduation, NO ONE CARES ANYMORE!! So don't obsess. Pick the one you like ... the one that kind of reflects who you are ... and I promise you it will be just fine.</p>
<p>Oops, if you are planning to become famous some day, maybe your quote WILL be important! I went to high school with Madonna, and my yearbook with Madonna in it has been a continuous source of fun for my kids to trot out. So, if you think you may be in the public eye someday, make sure you at least sound intelligent!</p>
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<p>I can top that too. :) One of my other quotes was in elvish. I can't read it without pulling out a copy of The Lord of the Rings!</p>
<p>Actually I love my yearbook page still - it really is a distillation of my enthusiasms at the time.</p>