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Us 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…
- Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act.…
- 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…
- 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…
- The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing…
- I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world…
- Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious…
- God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
- He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your…
- 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…
- What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we…
- I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God…
- Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a…
- You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching…
- Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal…
- 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…
- When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes…
- Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same
- Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing…
More Us Quotes
- Sometimes I think that life would be how much easier if we don't have heart. Because it is the heart which puts… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Dreams are what keep us going when real life lets us down. — Nishan Panwar