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Top 500 Barbara Kingsolver Quotes (2024 Update)
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Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “He doesn’t even look at her because there is too much there, and he’s afraid. She is his first child, his favorite, every mistake he ever made.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Some of us know how we came by our fortune, and some of us don’t, but we wear it all the same. There’s only one question worth asking now: How do we aim to live with it?”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “It’s the worst of bad manners to ridicule the small gesture... Small, stepwise changes in personal habits aren’t trivial. Ultimately they will, or won’t, add up to having been the thing that mattered.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Holding and synthesizing information in your brain creates your personality. You’re surrendering your personality to an electronic device in your pocket.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “It’s tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The Middle East and North Africa are almost out of water. Asia’s underwater. Syria is dystopian, Somalia, Bangladesh, dystopian. Everybody’s getting weather that never happened before. Melting permafrost means we’ve got like, a minute to turn this mess around, or else it’s going to stop us.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Cooking is the great divide between good eating and bad. The gains are quantifiable. Cooking and eating at home – even with quality ingredients – costs pennies on the dollar compared with meals prepared by a restaurant or factory.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Plus,” Tig said, “it reminds me to be patient. Seeing all these people that have passed on. I get frustrated sometimes, waiting.” “For people to die?” “Yeah. To be honest. The guys in charge of everything right now are so old. They really are, Mom. Older than you. They figured out the meaning of life in, I guess, the nineteen fifties and sixties. When it looked like there would always be plenty of everything.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Everything truly important is washable.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “And all of us with our closed eyes smelled the frangipani blossoms in the big rectangles of open wall, flowers so sweet they conjure up sin or heaven, depending on which way you are headed.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don’t believe in talent. I believe in passion.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant’s afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it’s been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother recalls the measure of the silences.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “You from out of town?” he asked after a while, eying my car. “No,” I said. “I go to Kentucky every year to get my license plate.” I didn’t like his looks.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Downstream is always someone else’s up.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I didn’t wish to be comforted. “You can’t replace people you love with other people,” I said. “They’re not like old shoes or something.” “No. But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had – a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they’d sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn’t occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “One percent of the brotherhood has their hands on most of the bread. They own the country, their god is the free market, and most people are so unhorrified they won’t even question the system. If it makes a profit, that’s the definition of good. If it grows, you have to stand back and let it. The free market has exactly the same morality as a cancer cell.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The radio is at the root of the evil, their rule is: No silence, ever. When anything happens, the commentator has to speak without a moment’s pause for gathering wisdom. Falsehood and inanity are preferable to silence.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world’s best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “He asked me if the alligator was a national symbol of the United States, because you saw them everywhere on people’s shirts, just above the heart.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “So much energy squandered in the unwinnable war waged by woman against the life-form she is.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The first to fall in any war are forgotten. No love gets lost over one person’s reckless mistake. Only after it’s a mountain of bodies bagged do we think to raise a flag and call the mistake by a different name, because one downfall times a thousand has got to mean something. It needs its own brand, some point to all the sacrifice.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “There can be no greater spiritual accomplishment than to come through brutal trials and then look back and see that mean times did not render us mean spirits.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “We cater to the better class of gentile clientele. We reserve the right to decline service to anyone we deem to be incompatible.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons. No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I knew exactly what I should have said: Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Without shelter, we stand in daylight.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I don’t look like who I am.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “That’s how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “One way of surviving heartache is to stay busy. Making something right in at least one tiny corner of the vast house of wrongs...”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I’m midway through a book before it happens. However, I don’t wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I’m not delivering lambs on the farm.”
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