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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• The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Joy, Heaven, Sweetness

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• The only thing sweeter than union is reunion.

  Kathleen McGowan

  Unions

  Kathleen McGowan (2010). “The Poet Prince”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

  Will Rogers

  War, Old Friends, Soldier

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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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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• Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

  Tryon Edwards

  I Miss You, Missing You, Goodbye

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• The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.

  Doug Larson

  Birthday, Flames, Class

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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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• I wish I could relate to the people I'm related to.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  People, Wish, Reuniting

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• People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Selfish, People, Family Reunion

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  True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Running, Country

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.88, RosettaBooks

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• One of the things that we love most about our comedy [ American Reunion] is that it goes all-out.

  Jon Hurwitz

  Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

  Ellen Goodman

  Stories, Next, Generations

  "Spring cleaning our lives" by Ellen Goodman, www.sfgate.com. April 13, 2002.

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• Family is essential because we all yearn to feel like we belong to something greater than ourselves.

  Laura Ramirez

  Essentials, Family Reunion, Feels

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• The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

  Anna Quindlen

  Kids, School, Talking

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• Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.

  Glenn Frey

  Eagles, Forever, Dean

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• If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll

  Steven Adler

  Rocks, Eagles, Rock And Roll

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• If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Family, Believe, Being Thankful

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• I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

  Paul Simon

  Mother, Children, Eggs

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• The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

  Dodie Smith

  Funny, Family, Heart

  Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

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• To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Family, Mean

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• The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Sibling, Character

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• There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Family, Children

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• I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Family, Witty

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.200, Wildside Press LLC

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