The Crest and Motto
The name: "Killara, an Aboriginal word meaning permanent"
The castle: A permanent place, shelter and reassurance, a means of maintaining that which is worthy of preservation, a storehouse of knowledge
The key: It is a symbol of progression, which opens doors of learning. It is also an emblem of growth and development into adulthood
The escutcheon: Provide protection against the unskilled, a pivoted keyhole cover
The motto: Latin: Conserva Progredere, symbolises preservation of the best of the past and continued development into the future
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Famous quotes containing the words crest and/or motto:
“What shall he have that killed the deer?
His leather skin and horns to wear.
Then sing him home.
Take thou no scorn to wear the horn,
It was a crest ere thou wast born;
Thy father’s father wore it,
And thy father bore it.
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which it is destined to receive thence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)