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Best Up Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.
- 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…
- Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you…
- 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…
- If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make…
- Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We…
- 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…
- If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands…
- 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…
- It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
- There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they…
- Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
- The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And…
- Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
- 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…
- Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds…
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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