Quotes from Andre Norton

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.

Either the law exists, or it does not.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

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.

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.

We have met and hated, fought and died before - you and I.

We never stand alone—for we are all woven into one—land, sky, rock, sand, animals—man is only a part of the whole.

you can't reason with fanatics anyway. They believe what they believe because they believe it. It's a matter of faith. Even if you could bring them all the proof in the world they still wouldn't change their minds

Who seeks may find, who lives may learn, who loves is blessed.

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 us through the trials which may lie ahead.

Each creature comes into being unique. Anything which destroys that individuality, anything which eliminates or adulterates mind or will or spirit, strikes at the very basis of life, at its greatest glory, its greatest strength, its very core.

I believe that those in the city must be left to work out their own destiny," the hist-techneer said at last. "In a manner of thinking that choice is now a retreat. They wish life to remain as it always has been. But that is just what life never does. It goes up—one advances—or it goes down—one retreats. And if one tried to stand still—that is retreat.

A life that has been bought by the blood of friends must not be thrown away.

Do you blame the sword for killing? It is the hand and brain behind it which holds the responsibility!

This was a watering place, perhaps a never-ceasing watering place—and to his desert-born-and-bred race all water was a spirit gift never to be taken for granted.

Was there no end to this aimless circling through a world of green smoke? He

This whole rotten mess came about just because he was able to think faster than the rest of us. And be sure that he didn't overlook the point of holding all the guns he could!

In the past Terra had been racked by wars of religion, one fanatically held opinion opposed to another. There was no righteousness in such struggles, only fatal ends. The Reds had no right to this new knowledge—but neither did they. It must be locked against the meddling of fools and zealots.

He discovered that lack of sight confuses the ear.

You know, one used to give presents on New Year's Day. Christmas was for churchgoing and family gatherings. On New Year's one's friends came visiting and then presents were exchanged.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and conditioned by upbringing

Frontiers of any type, physical or mental, are but a challenge to our breed. Nothing can stop the questing of men, not even Man. If we will it, not only the wonders of space, but the very stars are ours!

If Kartr had an instant picture of what it meant to dangle so precariously over the edge of a sheer drop he did not betray himself.