Senior Quotes

• I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.

  Betty White

  Hot, May, Stills

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

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• My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

  Ryan Lochte

  Dad, School, College

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• Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college and I guess I agreed with them or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

  Joe Namath

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  "Playboy's Candid Conversation With The Superswinger QB, Joe Namath". thestacks.deadspin.com. September 5, 2013.

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• I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.

  Jim Otto

  School, Years, Games

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• I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.

  Amy Sedaris

  Girl, Summer, Teacher

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 21, 2004.

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• I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

  Barry White

  Birthday, School, Years

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

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• My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Fun, School

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

  Richard Halliburton

  Graduation, Memorable, Nerves

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  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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• Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy.

  Gillian Roberts

  Apathy, Crowds, Graduates

  Gillian Roberts (2011). “Caught Dead in Philadelphia”, p.9, Untreed Reads

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• A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Graduation, Education

  "A Few Tips for the Graduates". The Topeka Capital-Journal, abcnews.go.com. May 20, 2007.

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• Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sweet, Memories, August

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• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Max Eastman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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• When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Autumn, August

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.354, Harvard University Press

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• There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

  Orrin Hatch

  Graduation, Exercise, College

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  There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Birthday, Death

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

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• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Milton Berle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

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• Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Retirement, Prayer

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• Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.

  John Hoeven

  Responsibility, Caring, Made

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• Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

  Orrin Hatch

  Graduation, Education, College

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• Do not follow where the path may lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Graduation, Travel, Adventure

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• I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

  Mitt Romney

  Running, Retirement, Jobs

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Graduation, College, Graduates

  "Dexter: Popping Cherry". TV series, 2006.

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