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Promise Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of…
- 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…
- 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…
- It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow,…
- 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…
- He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million…
- 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…
- The first sentence of a book is a promise.
More Promise Quotes
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. — Arthur Balfour
- At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. — Honore de Balzac
- Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests… — Karl Barth
- Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. — Bernard Baruch
- Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he… — Bob Beauprez
- Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens. — Bob Beauprez
- Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. — Ambrose Bierce
- Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. — Buffalo Bill
- Let God's promises shine on your problems. — Corrie Ten Boom
- I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain. — Conrad Black