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lafayette high school [may 15, 2008]
Senior quotes continued from pg. 7 Michelle Kristich: “Stay beautiful.” –Taylor Swift Hillary Kummer: “Remember the compliments you receive. Forget the insults, if you succeed in doing this tell me. Keep your old love letters, Throw away your old bank statements and stretch.” –Baz Luhrman Tucker Kurz: “Why would you want to watch TV and listen to the stereo at the same time? ‘Cause I like to party!?” –Talladega Nights Robert Kutten: “Truth is shorter than fiction.” –Irving Cohen Mark Lacey: “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” –Muhammad Ali Steven LaCour: “Show me the money.” –Jerry McGuire Lexi Lee “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” –Coco Chanel Emily Leeker “When it hurts to look back, and you’re scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.” –Anonymous Jared Legenzoff: “There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.” –King Louis IX Jordan Lenoir: “I can accept failure, but I cannot accept not trying.” –Michael Jordan Sarah Leonard: “The pen is mightier than the sword.” –Robert BulwerLytton Chaz Ligon: “Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win and never quit are idiots.” –Larry Kersten Brandon Linn: “You can’t handle the truth.” –Col. Jessup, A Few Good Men Alli Litwicki: “We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” –Oscar Wilde Allie Loewenstein: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson Michelle Longo: “The future you have tomorrow won’t be the future you had yesterday.” –Chuck Palahniuk Nathan Loseke: “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”–Moulin Rouge Allison Love: “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” –Bible Mickey Luberda: “Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us—the origin of many a morality.” –Friedrich Nietzche Sarah Luedloff: “It’s time to trust my instincts, close my eyes, and leap.” –Defying Gravity Sarah Lum: “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.” –Mark Twain Eric Lutz: “I’m tired of following
my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re going and meet up with them later.” –Mitch Hedberg Tim MacNair: “Lady Luck is golden. She favors the bold. That’s cold. Stop throwing stones. The night has a thousand saxophones. So get out there and rock and roll the bones.” –Rush Ryan Maddox: “The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.” –Charles Barkley Nick Malone: “The secret, I don’t know. I think you just gotta find something you love to do, then do it for the rest of your life.” –Max Fischer, Rushmore Tim Maness: “Hamburgers: the cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.” –Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction Jeff Martens: “He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” –Dr. Samuel Johnson Abigail Martin: “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson Alexandria Martin: “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear into the face. You are able to say to yourself ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’” –Eleanor Roosevelt Anthony Martin: “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” –Booker T. Washington Eleanor Martin: “Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” –Mark Twain Patricia Martinez: “Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no end, and dreams are forever.” –Walt Disney Jessica Mazzuca: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson Chris McCluskey: “The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.” –Albert Einstein Kelsey McCowen: “Promise me that you’ll give faith a fighting chance. And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. I hope you dance.” –Lee Ann Womack Chris McCoy: “Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.” –Aristotle Jon McCutchen: “A woman in politics is like a donkey doing calculus.” –It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Michael McDonald: “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” –Dave Mathews Band Allison McFarland: “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills its pupil.” –Louis Hector Berlioz Lauren McIntosh: “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” –Oprah Winfrey
Conner McIntyre: “The older we get the more rules they are going to try to get us to follow. We just got to keep on livin’ man. L-I-V-I-N.” -Dazed and Confused Ryan McKibben: “These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall. Upon us all a little rain must fall.” –Led Zeppelin Calie Meier: “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given the test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” –Tom Bodett Tony Meier: “As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me—red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.” –Larry Bird Cassandra Michel: “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” –Buddha Toni Millard: “Time is a valuable thing. Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings. Watch it count down to the end of the day. The clock ticks life away.” –Linkin Park Alyssa Miller: “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” –Carl Juny Shannon Miller: “I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.” –Oscar Wilde Garrett Millman: “It’s not rocket scientry, guys.” –Coach Boyd Manne Kevin Montes-de-Oca: “To be great is to be misunderstood.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson Lucy Mosier: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” –Robert Frost Jessica Motz: “We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.” –Tim McGraw John Mulcahy: “A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.” –Albert Einstein Alexis Myers: “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.” –Dr. Suess Andrew Nandor: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” –Nick, The Great Gatsby John Nelson: “I’m free as a bird now!” –Lynyrd Skynyrd Amy Nethero: “Live everyday as though it’s your last, ‘cause one day you’ll be right.” –Frank Sinatra Shannon Nicholson: “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It Goes On.” –Robert Frost Miya Norfleet-Aiken: “It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but
myself.” –Ralph Ellison Alex Nunn: “Silence is so accurate.” –Mark Rothko Taylor Nyhan: “We’ve got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it’s love that gives you the strength. It’s being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.” –Drew Barrymore Meghan O’Connell: “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.” –Flavia Weedn Brendan O’Toole: “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will.” –Mahatma Gandhi Haley Olson: “You come to nature with all your theories, and She knocks them all flat.” –Renoir Abby Orlowski: “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” –Helen Keller Lauren Osdoby: “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as though you’ll die today.” –James Dean Mark Palladino: “You don’t understand. I can handle my sedatives.” –It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Lauren Palmer: “Life’s like a box of chocolates. You never know whatcha gonna get.” –Forrest Gump Michael Patzius: “May those who love us love us, and those who don’t love us, may God turn their hearts. If he doesn’t turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we’ll know them by their limps.” –Unknown Michelle Pawlowski: “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” -J.K. Rowling Charles Pavlack: “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” –Walt Disney Alexa Peetz: “For gorgeous eyes, seek out the good in people. For a beautiful smile, speak out words of kindness. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you’ll never walk alone.” –Audrey Hepburn Catrina Perkins: “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field, frozen with snow.” –Langston Hughes Sean Peterson: “The Gods envy us, because we are mortal. Any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed.” –Achilles, Troy Drew Petry: “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eye off his goal” –E. Joseph Cossman Erin Petry: “You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.” –Dr. Seuss (cont. on page 9)