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Miracle Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- 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…
- Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me,…
- Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones…
- Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
- 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…
- Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and…
- Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is…
- The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as…
- Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
- Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the…
- But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I…
- Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
- 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…
- The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
- Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work…
- 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…
More Miracle Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts. And with every act of love that emanates from any of us, we… — Marianne Williamson
- No matter how many times I witness the miracle of someone having their sight restored, I'm still overwhelmed with emotion. When the… — Gabi Hollows
- [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw… — Thomas Jefferson
- Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much… — Oswald Chambers
- The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings… — Mark Twain
- We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden… — Ray Bradbury
- I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and… — Gore Vidal