Quotes by : Freya Stark

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.....

Time is the sea in which men grow are born or die.

Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety so that it....

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame....

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if they....

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any....

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you

What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as they....