<p>Mine was "I was farther out than you thought, and I wasn't waving, I was drowning." I don't regret it a bit, although I realize now I should have listened way more carefully to myself. It was years before I followed up on my own suggestion!</p>
<p>I chose an adaptation from a quote of henry David Thoreau..</p>
<p>"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live the life that you've imagined"</p>
<p>My quote was as follows:</p>
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-- Harpo Marx</p>
<p>My quote was from Buckaroo Banzai: Wherever you go, there you are.</p>
<p>My husband's was Live Long and Prosper.</p>
<p>I don't know what D chose, but it's Mark Twain.</p>
<p>(WashDad said: 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 hope he already had his teacher recomendations before this came out in print. :D</p>
<p>I chose a very touching one:
Our true glory is found not in never falling but rising every time we fall..... or something like that
Gotta love Emerson</p>
<p>Was going to post the same quote Irishmomof2 from Buckaroo Banzai - that and "monkey boy!"</p>
<p>My son of course chose something from Alexander the Great....</p>
<p>Daughter was "Pirate!"- Capt. Jack Sparrow</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>"Not all who wander are lost."
...... Chris Thile</p>
<p>...but I definitely like the Einstein one. As a matter of fact, you can find some great Einstein quotes by googling..</p>
<p>There are many good ones at quotegarden.com/yearbook.html:</p>
<p>Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson</p>
<p>Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius</p>
<p>What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson</p>
<p>Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown</p>
<p>Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn, Forever, </p>
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<p>I hope he already had his teacher recomendations before this came out in print.
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<p>I can't decide if I am proud of my son for not folding under adult pressure (the stories I could tell...), or frustrated that he won't just shut up sometimes and go with the program. He has yet to find a hill that he isn't willing to die on. He's either going to end up Richard Feynman or Ted Kaczynski.</p>
<p>WashDad, not all teachers would be offended - D's AP World History teacher has that saying on a poster in his room!</p>
<p>WashDad, I vote for Richard Feynman.</p>
<p>"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" - Oscar Wilde. (Funnier than Les Brown.) :)</p>
<p>WashDad
Your S sounds wonderful. As one who suffered weeks with tree rats (who look like squirrels but don't act cute) trying to take over my house and eating thru items in pantry, I think your S shouldget a patent and spread the word.</p>
<p>My school did away with senior quotes the year before me, so I never got to think very seriously about mine. But I was considering using this:</p>
<p>"And he made a molten sea ten cubits deep, and ten cubits from brim to brim, and a line of thirty cubits did compass around it." --the Bible</p>
<p>If you don't get it, you're not a math person.</p>
<p>Mine was:</p>
<p>"I'm pretty sure that there's a lot more to life than being really really ridiculously good looking, and I plan to find out what that is."</p>
<p>It's from Zoolander. </p>
<p>My best friend put:</p>
<p>"I'm joining the army to meet Muslim chicks."</p>
<p>haha I still can't believe it made it in the yearbook.</p>