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One 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our…
- My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
- 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…
- It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing…
- 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…
- In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled…
- Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build…
- To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into…
- Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
- I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss…
- There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what…
- The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is…
- Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure…
- 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…
- It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
- 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…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — 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
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle