All Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
- The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live… Admire
- God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up as stars to… Animal
- she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace Caught
- You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No… Asking
- Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth… Blow
- We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we… Aimed
- Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with… Afflicted
- That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands… Describe
- But children robbed of love will dwell on magic. Children
- (on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries. Aphrodisiac
- When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes… Creation
- I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent… Adulthood
- Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and… Across
- Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same All
- Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past Culture
- Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing… Connection
- Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write. Ethic
- Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter… According
- Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers! Appreciate
- In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back… Days