34 Quotes by Andre Norton

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.

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

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.

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!

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!