I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes. (Jeannette Walls)

I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.

Jeannette Walls

Related topics

fire knowledge moment sort world

Related quotes

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. View quote
Henry Miller
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. View quote
Frank Zappa
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions. View quote
Susanne Langer
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. View quote
George Santayana