Grade 12 Farewell Quotes & Sayings

The English mode of existence in which everybody acts as if everybody else ( with few, or no exceptions ) was either an enemy or a bore. — John Stuart Mill

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish. — Oprah Winfrey

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Short-term can be terminal. — Mark McCormack

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York. — Diane Cilento

When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. And thus this benefit renders him pleasing to us, besides that such community of intellect as we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love. — Anonymous

I'm a humanist. I always believed, even with Cirque du Soliel, that this is my way to contribute to a better world. I believe I'm very privileged, but many people face the reality when they wake up in the morning of not having food or a glass of water. Life's been good to me, and I believe you have to feed the circle of life. — Guy Laliberte

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.
(Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London, 3 October 1892) — A.E. Housman

I can look at a chick who's a little out of shape and if she turns me on, I won't hesitate to date her. If she's a good f**k she can weigh 150 pounds, I don't care. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

What we have to be is what we are. — Thomas Merton

If you surrender your free will, then someone is bound to take the reins and lead you to a place that is not of your own true desire. — Steven Redhead

A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever. — Melissa Etheridge

Children are not being assaulted by images that appear on a computer screen. Any Internet user knows it is quite difficult to stumble across pornography. — Russ Feingold