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Heart Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
- I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're…
- Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
- April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too…
- But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and…
- ...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or…
- 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…
- So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what…
- 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 don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent…
- 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…
- Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter…
- Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
- This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing…
More Heart Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin