I need a Bob Dylan line for my classroom

While money doesn’t talk, it swears

 

How about the last couple of lines from Frankie Lee & Judas Priest?

.... when you see your neighbor carryin’ somethin’
Help him with his load
And don’t go mistaking Paradise
For that home across the road

 

The cops don't need you, and man they expect the same.

 

"I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more".

 

This is the best nomination possible IMO......

 

People don't live or die, people just float

 

Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast

 

"I got a cravin' love for blazing speed got a hopped up Mustang Ford
Jump into the wagon, love, throw your panties overboard"

 

I looked at my watch. I looked at my wrist. I punched myself in the face with my fist.

 

with hungry hearts through the heat and cold
we never thought we could ever get old
we thought we could sit forever in fun
but our chances really was a million to one

 

"In Jersey anything's legal, as long as you don't get caught"

 

Folk is for fat people?

 

Another good cynical one:

"I’ve been down on the bottom of a world full of lies
I ain’t looking for nothing in anyone’s eyes"

More hopeful one:

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's the battle outside raging
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changing

 

I'll keep it educational:
"20 years 0f schoolin' and they put you on the day shift."

 

Thanks for all the wonderful suggestions. I have taken the best of them and, as suggested, I'll have my kids vote on them. I'll let you know what wins tomorrow.

 

If tomorrow wasn’t such a long time
Then lonesome would mean nothing to you at all

 

There must be some kind of way outta here

 

The way things are in schools today, how about "Has anybody seen my love?"

 

There's no success like failure,
And failure's no success at all

 

"The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter is that his name wasn’t Henry Porter"

(in other words nothing)

 

By the way,
That's a cute hat

 

It would have to be something famous for the teenagers to recognise ...I would go for

Hey Mr Tambourine Man play a song for me

 

What's a sweetheart like you doin' in a dump like this ?

 

"I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in your dream."

"He who is not busy being born is busy dying."

 

Funny...when my boy was about 4 years old, he used to enjoy "Tombstone Blues". We had fun singing along to it. Now at 11 he wears his headphones and enjoys 21 Pilots