Andre Norton Quotes

Everything I am is because of my grandmother.

I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

My father's mother really had a profound influence on me. She literally began her day with an hour of reading. But the most fundamental impact was education.

My family have shaped my politics more than anything else.

What I am is a direct result of how I was raised.

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.

I learned a lot from my father.

I was born to two people who helped me imbibe feelings of nationhood in my heart and love for the country.

As a child, my mother would read to me late into the night. I didn't enjoy it at the time but she always used to say that the inheritance she was going to leave us was a good education.

My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

Without my parents and their love and support in my life, I would not be who I am or where I am today.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has any right to tell anyone what makes a family

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.