Charlotte Bronte Quotes

Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.

Charlotte Bronte

• Moon
• Rochester
• Mademoiselle

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Money
  • American

• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mom

• 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

  

  Edmund White
  • Beginning
  • Solitude
  • Limit

• I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Big

• I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • History
  • Amazing
  • Idea

• Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Space

• Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Family
  • Doing
  • Percent

• 'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. I also hope those Uncles and Aunties out there will crack a smile!

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Family
  • America

• I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Story
  • Student
  • Iceland

• It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Funny

• Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Kids
  • Military
  • Thought

• That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Law
  • Grandmother
  • Fame

• One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Health
  • Focus
  • Quality

• When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • You
  • Strategy
  • Investment

• And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Why
  • Want
  • Woman

• What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Me
  • Public
  • Glory

• Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • American
  • History
  • Cotton

• Nothing embitters my old age like the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Men
  • Age

• Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Good
  • Earth

• I find in myself as much evil as in anyone, but detesting action - mother of all vices - I am the cause of no one's suffering.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Mother
  • Action
  • Evil

• I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Education

• Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.

  

  Kage Baker
  • History
  • Man
  • Space

• It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh, boy, had that Saturn V launch been exciting! And then, there it was - late at night, sitting up, watching, and there was Neil Armstrong actually standing on the surface of the Moon.

  

  David Weber
  • Up
  • Live
  • Real

• Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Moon
  • Rochester
  • Mademoiselle