Andre Norton famous quotes

04-12-2025

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton

#Courage #Lying #Inspiration
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
-- Andre Norton

#Cat #Trying #Littles
There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.
-- Andre Norton

#Enemy #Overcoming #Speech
The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!
-- Andre Norton

#Knives #Elephants #Doe
There is no cure for narrowness of mind ...
-- Andre Norton

#Mind #Cures
Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.
-- Andre Norton

#Gossip #Rumor
A treasure...at the top of any list of fantasy to be cherished.
-- Andre Norton

#Treasure #Lists #Fantasy
There's no night without stars.
-- Andre Norton

#Gratitude #Stars #Night
Either the law exists, or it does not.
-- Andre Norton

#Law #Doe
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.
-- Andre Norton

#Mistake #Thinking #Race
Victory belong to the most persevering.
-- Andre Norton

#Victory
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
-- Andre Norton

#Cat #People #Creative
We have met and hated, fought and died before - you and I. Kepta to Garin People of the Crater. Andre Norton.
-- Andre Norton

#People #Mets #Hated
Do not fear so, here is one who would be a blade at your back. A shield across your breast. Here is kin, here is strength to lean upon, to share as you share in need.
-- Andre Norton

#Would Be #Needs #Shields
... we are each shaped from our birth, not only by the blood and inheritance that lies behind us, but also by those we love and by whom we are loved in turn, by the knowledge given to our thirsty minds, to the learning of ourselves.
-- Andre Norton

#Lying #Blood #Mind

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