Everything truly important is washable.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERRecall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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