When we are older, we usually recall our school days with nostalgia and warm feelings, but probably not as much as we remember college. Schools are there not only to educate us but also to prepare us for adulthood. The last day of school is a great time for looking over your shoulder right into the past, and to recapitulate what you have learned in school. If you're looking for the perfect graduation caption or trying to figure out what to write in a yearbook, these last days of school quotes will give you all the inspiration you need.
Quotes About Friendships and Good Times
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"What we acquire from school is of course knowledge, but something that is maybe even more valuable is unbreakable relationships you form in school and experiences that change you as a person." — Unknown.
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"As we go on, we remember, all the times we had together." — Vitamin C.
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"What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends." — J. J. Watt.
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"Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do." — Oprah Winfrey.
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"We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun." — Winnie the Pooh.
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"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose." — Dr. Seuss.
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"Be so good they can't ignore you." — Steve Martin.
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." — Aristotle.
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"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up." — Regina Brett.
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"High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I'll take with me the rest of my life." — Giancarlo Stanton.
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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." — Dr. Seuss.
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been." — George Eliot.
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"What feels like the end is often the beginning." — Unknown.
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"Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." — Carl Bard.
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"Let's do what we love, and let's do a lot of it." — Marc Jacobs.
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"Now what?" — Unknown.
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"If you want to play, then practice. If you want to win, then practice harder." — Unknown.
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"When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you." — Patrick Stump.
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"Tassel was worth the hassle." — Unknown.
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"Clean blackboard. Teary eyes. Last class." — Unknown.
Quotes About Leaving School and New Beginnings
After finishing school you certainly ask yourself: "what now?" But that question shouldn't scare you. Unpredictable life is scary and it will change you, but now you are ready for a new beginning and experiences. Things will indeed change, but that's the main part of everyone's lives. Here you can find great ideas for what to write in a yearbook.
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"School's out for summer. School's out forever." — Alice Cooper.
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"I'm officially too cool for school." — Unknown.
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"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you're not going to stay where you are." — J.P. Morgan.
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"Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings." — Jonathan Lockwood Huie.
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"Every day is a chance to begin again. Don't focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations." — Catherine Pulsifer.
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"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward." — C.S. Lewis.
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"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose — not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember." — Anne Sullivan.
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"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." — Louis L'Amour.
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"Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us." — Mimi Novic.
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"High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change." — John Green.
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"High school is about finding who you are because that's more important than trying to be someone else." — Nick Jonas.
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"Perhaps that is where our choice lies - in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning." — Elana K. Arnold.
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"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand." — Oprah Winfrey.
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"By the end of high school I was not, of course, an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one." — Clifton Fadiman.
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"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." — A.A. Milne.
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"A year from now you will wish you had started today." — Unknown.
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." — Thomas A. Edison.
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"Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." — Carl Bard.
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"The two best days of school- the first and the last." — Unknown.
Summary
These captions for the last day of school are really the perfect exemplification of school life. On this day, one of the most important parts of your life is coming to an end, and you proceed further. Don't hold any grudges, keep in touch with your friends, and try to remember the little you who entered this school several years ago. How much have you changed? Let these last day of school quotes remind you of that.