Quotes About Robben Island

#1. I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life.

Nelson Mandela

#2. The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Daniel Hannan

#3. The purpose of freedom is to create it for others. Prison desk calendar, written on Robben Island, June 2, 1979

Nelson Mandela

#4. Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

Rush Limbaugh

#5. I did not have an unlimited library to choose from on Robben Island. We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective novels and all the works of Daphne du Maurier, but little more.

Nelson Mandela

#6. [I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

Nelson Mandela

#7. I was playing it existential, and maybe a bit stupid, but it was the only way I knew how to play it.

Jonathan Lethem

#8. Tears are every heartfelt feeling,every reminiscence,and every prayer falling down from the walls of heaven raining down upon us all.The tears that are saddened make the rivers rage and joyful tears make the flowers grow.The rain though never stops flowing.

Grace Lawson

#9. Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

Michael Schwab

#10. Our healthcare is a horror show.

Donald Trump

#11. I love her, Rajasta, I love her too much to hurt her; and I can give her nothing! No vows, no hope of real happiness, only sorrow and pain and, perhaps, shame ...

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#12. Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.

Gail Kelly

#13. Fixing your heartbreak by getting into another relationship is not the way to live your life - you need to live it on your terms for a while.

Taylor Swift

#14. I used to audition like crazy - I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked 'Galaxy Quest,' and then it started to get easier.

Missi Pyle

#15. Wolves are disciplined not only when they hunt but also when they travel, when they play, and when they eat. Nature doesn't view discipline as a negative thing. Discipline is DNA. Discipline is survival.

Cesar Millan

#16. It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent ... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.

Robert Hugh Benson