Ryecroft Primary Quotes

#1. Positive action generates positive thinking, not the other way around. Positive action is a choice, one that can be challenging, especially for people who've experienced much suffering and pain in their lives - but it's still a choice.

Lauren Mackler

#2. I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

J.G. Ballard

#3. It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires special conditions. I would like it to be universal.

Antony Gormley

#4. He never feared anything again.
Because he knew the secret.
Life was cheap.

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#5. I have been vain since birth.

Wallace Shawn

#6. Around, beyond the trees, were the buildings. There you really did have an idea of the city as something made by man, and not as something that had just grown by itself and was simply there.

V.S. Naipaul

#7. This I have known, and these have come again
With echoing happiness in heart and brain;
Time standing still, surrendering to me
Beauty that otherwise would cease to be.

William Kean Seymour

#8. The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

Randall Terry

#9. The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.

Johann Heinrich Lambert

#10. Our initial assessment is that they will all die.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#11. The artist enriches the soul of humanity.
The artist delights people with
a thousand different shades of feeling.

Auguste Rodin

#12. ...we've never really been alone. Maybe lonely, but never alone.

Hannah Brencher

#13. The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Ban Ki-moon

#14. Gray is not a substitute for black and white. You don't bump into people without saying you're sorry. When you shake hands, it's supposed to mean something. If someone is in trouble, you reach out.

Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

#15. There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. The challenge is, is it good for her parents who are living in extreme poverty, who need the girl's help to take care of getting firewood, water, taking care of young children?

Gene Sperling