Class Reunion Quotes

“Reunions are the first day of school all over again. Time casts away familiarity and replaces it with warm confusion. Seeing how the years have frayed the friends of our youth reminds us that we too have irrevocably changed and can never return to a state of innocence again.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The wind taught me never to forget old friends, by blowing them back to me.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Class reunions were about curiosity; about satisfaction at the avoidance of the mistakes of one’s contemporaries, now revealed in their emerging life histories; 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, At the Reunion Buffet

“The reunion, she decided, was an unnecessary and stressful complication to life. We did not need to reheat cold dishes from the past.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, At the Reunion Buffet

“…reunions, she felt, were not much more than a scratching at the vague itch of memory. And like scratching, they rarely helped—indeed, scratching often made matters worse, as any dermatologist would tell you.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, At the Reunion Buffet