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Children Quotes by 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 life as we…
- Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country…
- When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of…
- With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus…
- We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
- The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
- Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for…
- I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they…
- A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body…
- On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for…
- A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn…
- Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language…
- A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention…
- When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
- Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
- Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
- Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter…
- I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the…
- Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one…
- God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
- 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…
- But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
- I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone…
- Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon