Damage Quote by Barbara Kingsolver Download Open image “Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.” — Barbara Kingsolver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Damage Growing Growing up Ignorance Knives
Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“Any serious social encounter with knives has one main goal: to stop the action. Beyond that, you have a little flexibility: to kill, or… — Hank Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“In this information age, swords and knives are no longer the weapon of choice - words are (The Nature of Cruelty)” — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
“We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.” — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
“Be careful with your knives baby, use them before anyone can use them against you." Nan-The Otherside” — Ashley Jeffery Copy Share Image
“What we did not say was that with these hurts an edge was worn down. It happens out of necessity -- it would not… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
Before, back in the day when I was young, when you had some problems, you dealt with it with your hands. No one had… — Marko Arnautovic Copy Share Image
“So you want a knife, a nice sharp knife. You hone that blade to its limits. It even cuts through stone when you want… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
I feel like I've grown up with this sort of harsh exterior, where you need to watch your back because anybody is going to… — Julianna Pena Copy Share Image
Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it. — Caitlin Moran 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
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't… — Ashley Madekwe Copy Share Image
But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
