Roedean School Quotes

#1. Always remember that dreams-your creative visualizations-must come before their physical manifestations.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#2. Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.

Frances Beinecke

#3. Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.

Richard Brookhiser

#4. The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

James Baldwin

#5. I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambridge, then I could join Footlights. My problem was that I went to a comprehensive in Brighton. I thought I'd have to start from a good school, and the best I could think of was Roedean.

Lucy Griffiths

#6. Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds conscious of the same thought, but as long as it remains unspoken their familiar talk flows quietly over the hidden idea.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#7. It's as if Mom was expressing herself in a language other than English; a language that Grandma wouldn't be able to interpret simply by looking at the music notes.

Tessa Emily Hall

#8. A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance

Joe Abercrombie

#9. I love the piece of earth you are,
because in all the planetary prairies
I do not have another star. You repeat
the multiplication of the universe.

Pablo Neruda