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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…
- In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back…
- Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
- I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- 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
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong