"The Memory of Old Jack" Quotes
"The Memory of Old Jack" by Wendell Berry is a reflective novel that chronicles the life and enduring connection of Jack Beechum, a Kentucky farmer, to his land and community as he confronts aging and change.
fiction | 170 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
Life isn't just a pleasure garden. It's a battleground.
The world is full of places. Why are they all on top of each other?
A man is a creature who lives not in time but in moments.
Happiness is a settled thing and the Lord don't settle much on this earth.
There's a lot more to be said for living in a place than just being born there.
You can't have a home without something to remember it by.
A man's life is his way of telling God what he thinks of God's way of running the world.
The future is already present in the past.
There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
