Houses
Rotorua Boys' High School's four houses are named after British heroes:
- Drake (Admiral Sir Francis Drake) - red
- Frobisher (Sir Martin Frobisher) - yellow
- Nelson (Horatio Nelson) - blue
- Raleigh (Sir Walter Raleigh) - green
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Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“These were such houses as the lumberers of Maine spend the winter in, in the wilderness ... the camps and the hovels for the cattle, hardly distinguishable, except that the latter had no chimney.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)