"The motto was Pax, but the word was……" — Rumer Godden

"The motto was Pax, but the word was set in a circle of thorns."

— Rumer Godden

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16 Quotes by Rumer Godden

Rumer Godden has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests…
Memory is the only friend of grief.
A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries,…
If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that…
The stitch of a book is its words.
For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like…
There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an…
It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen;…
I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn…

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More Circle Quotes

This quote is filed under Circle Quotes, one of 965 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's… — Paul Auster
I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a… — David Bailey
Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. — Pearl Bailey
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his… — Jean Baudrillard
I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect;… — Annie Besant
The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical… — Annie Besant
Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence… — H. P. Blavatsky
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the… — Samuel Butler
When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It's how it goes with… — John Cena
My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we… — Pamela Anderson
Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung… — Pamela Anderson
You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'. — Jennifer Aniston

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