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Down Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old…
- The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing…
- 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,…
- If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
- For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like…
- Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick…
- Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just…
- The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings,…
- You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this…
- He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck…
- But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming…
- 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…
- Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars…
- But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your…
- Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit…
- What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge.…
- He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed…
- When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
- When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another…
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
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- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
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- I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods… — Rowan Atkinson
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