Reunion Quotes

• Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Retirement, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.39, Publishdrive

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• To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.

  Rita Hayworth

  Tombstone, Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Witty, Inspiration, Long

  "Athenaeum" magazine, #37 (B&S), 1798.

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• I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Being Happy, Real Friends

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 3, l. 46

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• The force of love, the force of reunion is unstoppable.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Corrupt Power, Unstoppable, Force

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  No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

  Robert Southey

  Friendship, I Miss You, Missing You

  Robert Southey (1836). “The Doctor, &c”

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• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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• Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

  Erma Bombeck

  Graduation, Pregnancy, School

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• There's no tour plans, no reunion, no new album... nothing.

  Dee Snider

  Journey, Albums, Plans

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.

  John Thorn

  Running, Thinking, Youth

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• History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

  Bob Dole

  Party, Evil, President

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• At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

  Peter Jurasik

  Graduation, Numbers, Years

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 18, 2002.

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• In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.

  Jeff Dunham

  School, June, Years

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• Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew.

  James Wolcott

  Sex, Reality, Paris

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• Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

  Gail Buckley

  Family, Past, Mirrors

  "Books of the Times" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

  Sebastian Bach

  One Day, Maybe One Day, I Can

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• It is important for us also to cultivate in our own family a sense that we belong together eternally, that whatever changes outside our home, there are fundamental aspects of our relationship which will never change.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Children, Home, Organization

  "The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints".

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• Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.

  Roger Taylor

  Relationship, Doors, Natural

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• My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

  Wentworth Miller

  Hands, White, Racism

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• Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Impossible Situations, Support

  "Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap". Book by Margaret Mead, 1970.

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• As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.

  George Harrison

  Long, Lennon, Concerned

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• I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.

  Eric Avery

  Thinking, Addiction, Soul

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• I haven't heard anything about a reunion show for Sisters. But if the script was good I would do it.

  Sela Ward

  Sister, Scripts, Heard

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• The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Family, Brother

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.23, MIT Press

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• If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Mean, Thinking, Dna

  "After the Beer Summit". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. February 11, 2010.

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