Cliche Valedictorian Quotes & Sayings

Even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one. — George Santayana

In water so fine, a few minutes of bad memory all but disappear downstream, washed away by ten thousand belly busters, a million cannonballs. Paradise was never heaven-high when I was a boy but waist-deep, an oasis of cutoff blue jeans and raggedy Converse sneakers, sweating bottles of Nehi Grape and Orange Crush, and this stream. I remember the antidote of icy water against my blistered skin, and the taste of mushy tomato and mayonnaise sandwiches, unwrapped from twice-used aluminum foil. I saw my first water moccasin here, and my first real girl, and being a child of the foot washers I have sometimes wondered if this was my Eden, and my serpent. If it was, I didn't hold out any longer than that first poor fool did. — Rick Bragg

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events. — David Brin

For the gods know I
speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge — William Shakespeare

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once. — Phyllis Diller

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition. — Jim Davis

There seems to be a gravitational force pulling us inexorably back to the warm embrace of those French fries, that Web site with the pictures of the goofy cats, or the spiral of worry about things outside our control. — Anonymous

Vincent started praying, Dear Father, thank you for bitches slapping bitches. — Sarah Brianne