132 Quotes by John Knowles

Why talk about something you can't do anything about?

The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary with age, enfeebled, dry. So more the things remain the same, the more they change after all. Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence. Changed, I headed back though the mud. I was drenched; anybody could see it was time to come out of the rain.

I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you. You've already shown me and I believe you.

If we could get some grant money, it would ease the burden on the taxpayers of Philipsburg,

I think it is probably going to cost people their lives.

Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework.

We really did have a club whose members jumped from the branch of a very high tree into the river as initiation.

As a kid from a border state, I found the New Hampshire winter breathtakingly cold - for a while I didn't think I could breathe there at all - but I survived to return for the summer session of 1943.

There's been a lot of misinformation out there. I think they're leaving a lot of people high and dry at very short notice.