Famous Quotes / John Knowles
8 Quotations by John Knowles
- 1. As a kid from a border state, I found the New Hampshire winter breathtakingly cold - for a while I d ...
- 2. Everyone has a moment in history that belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotion ...
- 3. Swimming isn't the most thrilling sport in the world, far from it; it's a damn bore most of the time ...
- 4. The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.
- 5. The novel has one peculiarity for a school novel: It never attacks the place; it isn't an expose; it ...
- 6. The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.
- 7. There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, lar ...
- 8. We really did have a club whose members jumped from the branch of a very high tree into the river as ...