Kind Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

— Barbara Kingsolver

No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“And I have no idea how to be kind to myself. Living, as a general enterprise, seems unkind beyond belief.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense…

— Barbara Kingsolver

What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the…

— Barbara Kingsolver