Quote by Barbara Kingsolver Download Open image ““Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.”” — Barbara Kingsolver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay . . . maybe medieval.” — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
“It may be that what we call modern is nothing, but what is not worthy of remaining to become old.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Modern society becomes more and more complex by the day. What used to be traditional isn’t necessarily traditional anymore.” — Fadi Hattendorf Copy Share Image
“They're all inside of us,...past people and present people. And probably even the people we'll become.” — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“The more I study history the more I realize how little mankind has changed. There are no new scripts, just different actors.” — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, while day-to-day life has changed, humanity hasn't.” — Rachel Harris Copy Share Image
“Man has been slipping backward for ages. The more advanced we became the more primitive we grew.” — Jennifer Ott Copy Share Image
“Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people are abundant not in their actions but who they truly are.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“It was supposed to be people who died and cultures that lasted. Now it was the other way around. Something” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Lusa turned to Crys, her eyes shining. "That was a luna." Crys shrugged. "So?" "So? So what? You want it should sing, too?” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
