John Knox/early Life 1505-1546

Famous quotes containing the words knox, early and/or life:

    “Death is an incident producing clay. Use it, mold it, learn from it.”
    —John Gilling, British screenwriter. Dr. Knox (Peter Cushing)

    “It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.”
    —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    “... scepticism ... can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill ...”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)