Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWhen I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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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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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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