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Day Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other.…
- You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive…
- Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of…
- People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's…
- In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job…
- You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend,…
- Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
- 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…
- Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next,…
- 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…
- Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things…
- Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
- To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Day Quotes
- Every day is a new opportunity for failure. — Nikhil Saluja
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- I'm just a part of the scenery, like an old shoe or a rug that you walk on every day but don't… — Superman
- Lifehack: End your day whenever you accidentally close your Gmail tab. — Nikhil Saluja
- The Things That Make You Feel Bad, Are The Ones That Will Eventually Go Away, So, You Should Never Give Up Fighting,… — Ritu Ghatourey