Ancestors Quote by Elizabeth Knox Download Open image ““Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”” — Elizabeth Knox ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancestors Books Foreigners Meet Neighbors People
“When I meet someone who says they're not "much for books," I can guarantee that they haven't met the right book yet.” — Kersten Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.” — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“I realized right away that books could take us out of ourselves, and make us larger. Even provide us with human connections we wouldn’t… — Masha Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Books should be full of stuff you could never say to people in public.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Books are majical. With books we can be anyone, go everywhere, and do anything.” — Brenda Tetreault Copy Share Image
“There's lots of interesting things in books. And you get to meet people you might never know otherwise.” — Kiki Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I believe that books, like people, come to us at the perfect time, with a purpose to either bring awareness to something we need… — Lindsay Carricarte-Jones Copy Share Image
“The geologist, six years ago now, hadn't defied anything to climb the hill. He'd had his own powerful magic--the ordinary magic that extraordinarily interested… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
“I don't know whether you know this, but there are people in the world with a very odd gift, one that looks like crossed… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
“I knew I was in danger from the moment I proposed visiting you a second time. I knew because God warned me by sending… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
“I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
“Of course, any map of the Place would be shocking to anyone with any understanding of geography. As you can see, this is a… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
“You fainted and I caught you. It was the first time I'd supported a human. You had such heavy bones. I put myself between… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
“Don't take this the wrong way, but you seem like the strangest stranger I've ever met.” — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam. — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
“Xas put his face close to Sobran's and said, soft and succinct, "Listen, and take this in. The terms of the pact are this:… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
“She said to him, ‘You might melt.’ And he said, “If I melt, you can make me again.” — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space...… — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are,… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
“Each of us is the product of history. Our lives today are evidence that our ancestors survived unbelievable odds stretching back to prehistory. The… — Laura Wheldon Copy Share Image
