Jill Ker Conway quotes

“I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.”
-- Jill Ker Conway

Source : Jill Ker Conway (2011). “The Road from Coorain”, p.235, Vintage

#Moon Quotes #Sky Quotes #Earth Quotes

“William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any reader, of any age, will enjoythis book.”
-- Jill Ker Conway

#Teacher Quotes #Book Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“Some friendships in life sustain themselves only at a particular life stage, products of some mutual developmental problem to be resolved together, or of some external circumstance, like being housed in the same dormitory in boarding school. Others grow out of a deeper spiritual and philosophical affinity, which continues throughout life.”
-- Jill Ker Conway

#Spiritual Quotes #Philosophical Quotes #School Quotes

“I had the total attention of both my parents, and was secure in the knowledge of being loved ... My memories of falling asleep at night are to the comfortable sound of my parents' voices, voices which conveyed in their tones the message that these two people loved and trusted one another.”
-- Jill Ker Conway

#Memories Quotes #Fall Quotes #Night Quotes

“Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?”
-- Jill Ker Conway

Source : Jill Ker Conway (2011). “When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography”, p.3, Vintage

#Fiction Quotes #Modern Quotes #Form Quotes

“I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.”

“Someone who has acted carelessly, But later becomes careful and attentive, Is as beautiful as the bright moon emerging from the clouds.”

“When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.”

“My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.”

“When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.”

“For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.”

“We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!”

“If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.”

Source : "A fence built for peace" by Abba Eban, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.

“For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed...”

“As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.