Penelope Lively Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. March 17, 1933
Birthday: March 17
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.
source: Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
topic: Latin, Museums, Lexicon, Idle Chatter, Chatter, Anglo Saxon, Single Sentence, Norse
