What inspirational class reunion quotes are your favorites? I have some I’ll be sharing with you here. Class reunions are always special. We reconnect with friends, spend time with old buddies, have good laughs, and network.
Some of your friends may have become successful people in their respective fields. So, reunions are a great time to build your network and rekindle the bond you once shared with some of your classmates.
I have compiled a long list of inspirational quotes for class reunions that can make reunions even more special. Check them out below.
170+ Inspirational Class Reunion Quotes That Turn Heads
1. “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
2. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” – Elisabeth Foley
3. “Time and time again, we reconnect. It’s like the universe nudges us to give it one more chance.” – Nikki Rowe
4. “Time endears but cannot fade the memories that friends have made.” – Source, Unknown
5. “When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.” – Bob Hope
6. “Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!” – Albert Einstein
7. “The Sweetness of Reunion is the Joy of Heaven.” – Richard Paul Evans
8. “The only thing sweeter than union is a reunion.” – Kathleen McGowan
9. “But every memory of friendship shared, even for a short time, is a treasure, like sunshine and warmth in our lives, like a cool breeze on a humid day, like a shower of rain refreshing the earth.” – Unknown
10. “Reunion reveals friendship potential that hasn’t yet emerged in the past.” – Toba Beta
11. “We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.” — Lynn Hall
12. “Reunion after a long separation is even better than one’s wedding night.” – Chinese Proverb
13. “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” — Elisabeth Foley
14. ‘Recall it as often as you wish, a happy memory never wears out.” – Source, Libbie Fudim
15. “Memories are the treasures that we keep locked deep within the storehouse of our souls, to keep our hearts warm when we are lonely.” – Source, Becky Aligada
16. “To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.” – Ricky Nelson
17. “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?” — C.S. Lewis
18. “Everything has changed and yet, I am more me than I’ve ever been.” — Iain Thomas
19. “Happiness is being with an old friend after a long time and feeling like nothing has changed.” – Unknown
20. “We’re all in this together.” — High School Musical
21. Life gives us brief moments with another…but sometimes in those brief moment we get memories that last a life time… – Source, Unknown
22. “Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.” — Ally Condie
23. “The seasons change but the friends remain the same.” – Unknown
24. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” — Charles Dickens
25. True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” – Kurt Vonnegut
26. “You make me feel like I’m livin’ a teenage dream.” — Katy Perry
27. “I made good friends in school, and years later, I am going to see them again. Is life not wonderful?” – Unknown
28. “Souls tend to go back to who feels like home.” — N.R. Hart
29. “Reunited with my old friends and it feels so good!” — Unknown
30. We do not remember days; we remember moments. – Source, Cesare Pavese
31. “The best of friends are impossible to forget.” – Unknown
32. “In the end, you always go back to the people that were there in the beginning.” – Source, Unknown
33. “Youth is wasted on the young.” – Unknown
34. “Sometimes, you have to accept the fact that certain things will never go back to how they used to be.” – Unknown
35. “It’s the oldest story in the world. One day you’re seventeen and planning for someday, and then quietly and without you ever really noticing, someday is today, and that someday is yesterday. And this is your life.” — One Tree Hill
36. “To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.” – Source, Ricky Nelson
37. “I’ve never been to a class reunion or anything because I’m always afraid of that one – there’s going to be some ‘Carrie’-like incident.” – Paul Feig
38. “Stop counting the years you’ve been away from your old school mates, count the unforgettable memories you created with them.” – Unknown
39. “I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends.” – William Shakespeare
40. “We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.” — Bryan White
41. “It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.” – Dick Cavett
42. “A second chance to decide the legacy you leave behind.” – Unknown
43. When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. – Source, Bob Hope
44. “The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.” – Doug Larson
45. “The difference between our collective generation and your generation is that we poured our souls out on paper that got easily yellowed and lost. The danger is that many of your friends are putting intimate ideas in cyberspace journals. So when today’s 15-year-old is 40, some friend is going to drag out all of that idiotic stuff at their class reunion.” – Paul Saffo
46. “Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.” — Erma Bombeck
47. “At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.” – Stephen King
48. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” — John Lennon
49. “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
50. “Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.” – Gaddis Smith
51. “No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it’s a world, or a relationship… Everything has its time. And everything ends.” — Elisabeth Sladen
52. “My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That’s my attitude toward life. So I don’t have any romanticism about any part of my past.” — John Lennon
53. “That’s the fun of going to a high school reunion: its seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.” — Jon Hurwitz
54. “I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.” – Kevin Sessums
55. “Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart.” – Source, Unknown
56. “This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy.” — Janeane Garofalo
57. “Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions – the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.” — Anita Shreve
58. “I can’t put this delicately – everyone goes to their high school reunion wanting to see who they ‘beat.” — Megyn Price
59. “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
60. “I went to my 30th high school reunion, and I could tell who was gay and who was straight because the gay people were like, ‘Sarah, you’ve been doing so much,’ and the straight people were like, ‘So, Sarah, what have you been doing?” — Sarah Schulman
61. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re thought a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” — Tom Bodett
62. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” — Mark Twain
63. “Let’s put it this way: there wouldn’t be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn’t be anybody there. We’d struggle to raise a quorum.” — Clint Eastwood
64. “You can’t stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.” — Jay Leno
65. “With high definition TV, everything looks bigger and wider, kind of like going to your 25th high school reunion.” — Jay Leno
66. “I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.” — P. D. James
67. “We still talk about [school band]. Almost 40 years later. It’s like people are talking about, “Man we need to have a morning band reunion.” — Jon Gordon
68. “I don’t go to reunions much. I’m afraid that if I go back to the school, they’ll suddenly go, ‘You know what? We’ve checked the records and you still have one more French class. Get back in here.” — Sigourney Weaver
69. A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.
70. “The song How do you like me now? By Toby Keith will be my personal theme song when I attend my first high school reunion.” — Robert Cheeke
71. “Cut to my five-year reunion: I’m an entirely different person.” — Dane Cook
72. “I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.” — Anderson Cooper
73. “I was tempted to go to my snotty high school reunion, but luckily I resisted the urge–when I received the hand-out that described what everyone is doing now, I fell asleep reading it. Boring!” — Princess Superstar
74. “Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.” — P. D. James
75. “I miss you, my friend, but I am happy for what you have become. I’m looking forward to the reunions to share great moments with you once again.” – Unknown
76. A place in thy memory, dearest, Is all that I claim; To pause and look back when thou hearest The sound of my name. – Gerald Griffin
77. “There’s nothing like reuniting with old friends and picking up right where you left off. Can’t wait to catch up and reminisce with you!” – Unknown
78. “High school is about finding who you are, because that’s more important than trying to be someone else.” – Nick Jonas
79. “If you don’t pass your values on to your kids, someone else will.” — Frank Sonnenberg
80. “The seasons change but the friends remain the same.” – Unknown
81. “Happy trails to you, until we meet again. ” — Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
82. “With a heavy heart, I pulled out my own pocket knife, and carved three little words beneath Archer’s. A plea and a wish, in a form I could never take back. Return to me. ” —Ashleigh Zavarelli
83. “Family is like branches on a tree; we all grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one. ” — Unknown
84. “The story of love is hello and goodbye. . . until we meet again. ” — Jimi Hendrix
85. “A few signs of reunites with friends, getting the brew in a drink, the arts of omelets, the window seat & the stunning click – learc”
86. “Being part of a family means smiling for photos.” — Harry Morgan
87. “Childhood friends are the ones who knew you before you knew yourself” – Unknown
88. Class reunion cartoon – I don’t want to brag or make anyone jealous, but I can still fit into the earrings I wore in high school.
Back on its golden hinges
The gate of Memory swings,
And my heart goes into the garden
And walks with the olden things.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
89. “That’s the problem with memories, you can visit them, but you can’t live in them.” – Shaun David Hutchinson
90. “We knew we were different, even from out elementary school days. We were the class clowns; we engaged with people differently. We knew there was something out there that was meant for us.” – Drew Scott
91. “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
92. “ Cherish good friends because they are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget” – Unknown
93. “Some of us can live without a society but not without a family. ” — Amit Kalantri
94. “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
95. A happy memory is a hiding place for “unforgotten treasures. – Paul L. Powers
96. “The Guns N’ Roses reunion didn’t happen by chance or whatever. It was always looked at as a possibility, but it never seemed right or felt right.” – Axl Rose
97. 93. “It’s very strange that most people don’t care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. ” — Douglas Coupland
98. “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
99. “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.” Henry Louis Gates
100. “I’m always down for a Spice Girls reunion. I love the Scary hair and platforms. Any time of day or night I’ll be there.” – Mel B
101. “My soul is delighted to be reunited with my beloved friends.” – Unknown
102. “Very long separation is a test: A test to see how powerful or how weak the will of reuniting is!” — Mehmet Murat ildan
103. Don’t count the years…count the memories. Recall it as often as you wish, a happy memory never wears out. – Libbie Fudim
104. “To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. ” —Barbara Bush
105. “Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.” – Michelle Bachelet
106. “Pay attention to your friends; pay attention to that cousin that jumps up on the picnic table at the family reunion and goes a little too ‘nutty,’ you know what I mean? Pay attention to that aunt that’s down in the basement that never comes upstairs. We have to pay attention to our friends, pay attention to your family, and offer a hand.” – Jenifer Lewis
107. “I eventually made the reunion with my father that I’d used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we’d both outgrown the only relationship we could have had to each other. I was over 30 by the time I met him again and no longer needed a father.” – Mona Simpson
108. “Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn’t there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn’t that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy.” – Peter Jurasik
109. “The people in ‘July, July’ do find themselves looking backward, talking to others and to themselves about those over-the-cliff, fork-in-the-road moments in their lives. I imagine this is what must happen at a 30th college reunion.” – Tim O’Brien
110. Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. – Thomas More
111. “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
112. “Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone’s relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.” – Shawn Ashmore
113.” I mean, I hate to say it, but I listen to Journey and think, ‘Jesus Christ, that is just wrong.’ That’s why there will never be a Bad English reunion. It’s for super white people listening to super white music.” – John Waite
114. “I never wanted to do reunion shows for the sake of a reunion show. I’ve done all the ‘Brady Bunch’ stuff except for the Variety Show, but when a talk show wants us all to get together for their sake, it’s not interesting to me.” – Eve Plumb
115. How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends! – George Eliot
116. “As far as the Animals breaking up – it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as we could take it. Our reunion tour in 1983 went pretty good until we left America. Then we pushed it too hard and it fell apart.” – Eric Burdon
117. “About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, it’s a place where people upload snapshots from the family reunion, wedding or the birth of a baby or something like that, but it’s also a place where people go to show what the world looks like to them.” – Stewart Butterfield
118. “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
119. “We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.” – Tim McGraw
120. “When you’re a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it’s like being invited to a family reunion, but it’s not your family. So you don’t belong – they’re being nice to you, but you don’t fit in completely; you don’t know everybody’s story. You don’t have a history.” – Ato Essandoh
121. “I was the guy who was friends with everybody. Yes, I had my core group of friends, but I wasn’t part of a clique that excluded people. I hope they thought I was a nice guy. I tried to be just friendly and outgoing. I was class president. I’m supposed to run my class reunion in 2013.” – Austin Stowell
122. “They call it a reunion for a reason. It’s called bringing the original members back to what it was. So there’s a lot of these things that they call reunions that aren’t really reunions. They’ve got one dude from the band floating around in them, you know. That’s not a true reunion. With Pantera, it’ll never be possible.” – Vinnie Paul
123. ‘Power’ usually starts principal photography around mid September, and the first table read is always like one big family reunion. The most common comment we hear is how ‘well rested’ everyone looks… something that can’t be said by the end of the season.’ – Lela Loren
124. “We were shooting in a French island called La Reunion. One of my crew members gifted me free-diving equipment and took me to the waters on my day off. I spotted sharks and species of fish which can’t be found elsewhere. It was a very refreshing experience for me.” – Madhura Naik
125. “In rock music, you have a big success before you turn 30, then there is sort of a decay. Then there is the reunion, and everyone is waiting to hear what you were doing when you were 20, and nobody cares what you are doing at 50 or 60. But the more I continue, the more I produce, the more I play every year in bigger places.” – Ludovico Einaudi
126. “New friends are silver, but old ones are gold!” – Unknown
127. “You forget how much you miss your classmates until you see them again.” – Anonymous
128. “The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there’s 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you’re a good listener, and you can imagine how someone’s talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?” – Susan Straight
129. “I got to portray a park ranger on ‘Gilmore Girls,’ the reunion films. And when I was a kid, that was one of the things that I wanted to be – I wanted to be a forest ranger or park ranger.” – Peter Krause
130. “The first ‘Half-Life’ movie treatment pitched to us climaxed with a tearful reunion between enslaved Vortigaunts and their Vortiwives and children. The last one I saw had Black Mesa invaded by a cavalry unit, just so as to feature a scene of bullsquids tearing into armored horses.” – Marc Laidlaw
131. “We didn’t realize we were making memories. We just knew we were having fun.” – Anonymous
132. “I have discovered France’s best-kept secret. Reunion is an island of some 970 square miles situated in the Indian Ocean south-west of Mauritius and east of Madagascar.” – Carol Drinkwater
133. “Class reunions were about curiosity; about satisfaction at the avoidance of the mistakes of one’s contemporaries, now revealed in their emerging life stories; about reflecting on the ravages – and injustices – of time; and of realizing, perhaps, how strange and random are the twists and turns of fate.” – Alexander McCall Smith
134. “We all got older, and we’d tell our children things like, ‘Mommy used to be in a famous rock band,’ but they didn’t believe us. Part of the reason for our reunion was to show our children what we did to make the lives they have possible.” – Dolores O’Riordan
135. “Stuff about the reunion was all over the TV all the time, and they were playing ‘Take It to the Limit’ on the radio again. And I’m thinking, gee whiz, I wish they’d reunited with the guys who were actually in the group.”- Randy Meisner
136. “I was extremely excited when I got to know that Govinda was going to be with me on ‘Super Dancer – Chapter 4.’ It was definitely a kind of reunion, and I was really happy about sharing screen space with him after over 30 years.” – Neelam Kothari
137. “What’s the point of a high school reunion? I have Facebook. I already know you got fat.” – Anonymous
138. “Reunion’s ace card is its interior, its natural parks. Its volcanic origins have defined an extraordinary landscape, characterised by high peaks, deep canyons, lush ravines and vast plains, which are ideal for trekking, cycling and water rafting.” – Carol Drinkwater
139. “It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.” – Dick Cavett
140. “The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.” – Richard Paul Evans
141. “There are no ‘Leave It to Beaver’ families. Everybody’s family’s got that one nut that comes to the family reunion and you’re like, OK, that guy’s here.” – Eddie Griffin
142. “No distance in miles can surpass the warmth of a reunion between friends. ” – Unknown
143. “There’s something special about the friends you made in childhood – they’re like family, but with more laughs and fewer arguments” – Unknown
144. “Happiness is meeting old friends at class reunions and rekindling the forgotten memories.” – Anonymous
145. “If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you’ll be going, ‘you know, we’re alright. ” — Jeff Foxworthy
146. “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ” — George Bernard Shaw
147. “I can hardly wait to see and meticulously judge you at our high school reunion.” – Anonymous
148. “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” – Marcel Proust
149. “I have lost friends, some by death—others through sheer inability to cross the street. ” —Virginia Woolf
150. “One interesting fact about class reunions is that everyone attends with a smile on their faces, and promise of a brighter future.” – Unknown
151. “In the class, there was a core group of 50 to 60 kids who went through all 12 years together. This is more like a family reunion than a class reunion.” – Jim Anderson
152. “We didn’t realize we were making memories. We just knew we were having fun.” – Anonymous
153. “What’s interesting is relative levels of introversion tend to stay the same. If you went back to your reunion from school, you would probably find that if you ranked everyone in your class into terms of levels of introversion and extroversion, you’d still be the same rank.” – Susan Cain
154. “If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother’s side or my father’s, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That’s just the way it is in my family. ” — Forest Whitaker
155. “Reunited, and it feels so good! Let’s make this reunion one to remember with stories, laughter, and good company” – Unknown
156. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. – Nelson Mandela
157. “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night. ” —Bill Watterson
158. “To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word ‘boo.” — Robert Breault
159. Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. – Tryon Edwards
160. “You can kiss your family and friends goodbye and put miles between you, but at the same time, you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach because you do not just live in a world, but a world lives in you. ” — Frederick Buechner
161. “Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!” – John Irving
162. Reunion after long separation is even better than one’s wedding night. – Chinese Proverb
163. “Reunions have a strange way of bringing out the best in us – they transform us into jubilant people, full of joy and gladness. ” – Unknown
164. The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
165. School’s out, Memories past, Don’t ever doubt, Our friendship will last.
166. “No matter how much time has passed, the bond between childhood friends remains unbreakable.” – Unknown
167. “It’s class reunion, a second chance to decide the legacy you leave behind.” – Unknown
168. “Sometimes you never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss
169. “Seeing your childhood friends after so many years is like looking at an old photo album memories flood back, and you can’t help but smile” – Unknown
170. “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
Conclusion
How do you feel reading these inspirational class reunion quotes? Don’t you feel special already? Meeting your classmates once again is worth celebrating. Moments like that don’t come often.
Reunions are always special. They bring back memories and allow you to reconnect with your old buddies. These inspirational class reunion quotes will serve as an icing on the cake. It will make your reunions even more special.
So, go out there and reconnect with your friends. Create memories with them one more time until another reunion.
