Kathleen Norris - Place Quotes

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Home ought to be our clearing house, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.

Kathleen Norris

If there were but one place in the world where we could find them [books], we must all be pilgrims. If one man possessed them all, we must all be suitors.

Kathleen Norris

We Irish are a queer unbalanced lot, but God knows what a cold, hard place the world would be without us!

Kathleen Norris

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

Kathleen Norris

There is no situation so high or so luxurious that it is not utterly dreary without friends; and there is no place so isolated and quiet and obscure but what we love it if the persons we love are there.

Kathleen Norris

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

Kathleen Norris