Pocklington School Quotes & Sayings

And why are you sitting there? (Callie)
Because it's rather difficult to stand while sleeping. (Sin)
You are sleeping outside my door? Why? (Callie)
Because if I slept outside of Simon's door, the innkeeper might think I'm strange. (Sin) — Kinley MacGregor

God only rules in the affairs of men either by the invitation of man or to save man from some self-inflicted dangers. — Sunday Adelaja

Drawing is putting a line around an idea. — Henri Matisse

I am the moth and he is the flame, and I'm going to get burned. I know. — E.L. James

I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward. — Douglas Coupland

Leaders need to have a fire in their heart, and a good reason for being - the — Donald J. Trump

Nothing opens up the mind and the heart like books do, and so they have the power to change the whole world. That's why the are burning books, Ava. To stop us thinking, and feeling, and imagining ... — Kate Forsyth

The bed was no longer a daisy-field for her and Joe to play in. It was a place where she went and laid down when she was sleepy and tired. — Zora Neale Hurston

There's an awful lot of white British kids who have never really gone hungry, always had a roof to live under but at the same time are desperately unhappy. It's not total poverty, just a poverty of ideas. — Richey Edwards

What no tourist bumf will tell you is that this inlet is suffused with an atmosphere of ineffable sadness. Partly a trick of the light and climatic factors, partly also the lingering residue of an historical tragedy which still resonates through rock and water down seven generations of fretful commemorative attempts and dissonant historical hermeneutics. Now think of grey shading towards gunmetal across an achromatic spectrum; think also of turbid cumulus clouds pouring down five centimeters of rainfall above the national average and you have some idea of the light reflected within the walls of this inlet. This is the type of light which lends itself to vitamin D deficiency, baseline serotonin levels, spluttering neurotransmitters and mild but by no means notional depression. It is the type of light wherein ghosts go their rounds at all hours of the day. — Mike McCormack

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger ... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't. — Andy Murray

One of the most painful realizations in life, is to all of a sudden discover that you had possessed things all along, that you were busy looking for somewhere else. — Sunday Adelaja

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. — Samuel Butler

If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy. — Kofi Annan

Our whole lives as Christ-followers are to be given over to the identification and celebration of the limits God has ordained for us. — Jen Wilkin