Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

He spoke for an hour on the nonviolent road to independence. The crowd loved it so much they rioted and killed twelve people.

I didn’t wish to be comforted. You can’t replace people you love with other people, I said. They’re not like old shoes or something. No. But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to...

But I'll tell you a secret. 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 fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious m...

...The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?""To be a writer, you need readers.""I'm no painter, then. Who ever looks at my little dumb pieces of shit?

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

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 that that can render.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

You know what really gets me? I asked him. How people call you ‘illegals.’ That just pisses me off, I don’t know how you can stand it. A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But ho...

We will change our ways significantly as a nation not when some laws tell us we have to (remember Prohibition?), but when we want

To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assu...

Having children was not like people said. Forget training them in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes...

Think of all the duties that were perfectly obvious to Paul or Matthew in that old Arabian desert that are pure nonsense to us now. All that foot washing, for example. Was it really for God's glory or...

Well, but it’s criminal negligence, really. These kids have to grow up and run things. Larger things than a ball field, I mean. What kind of world will they really be able to make?

It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother r...

The notebook from the tobacco stand was the beginning of hope: a prisoner’s plan for escape. Its empty pages would be the book of everything, miraculous and unending like the sea at night, a heartbeat...

Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.’ That’s

They saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious. That is what it means to be a beast in the kingdom

Plus, Tig said, it reminds me to be patient. Seeing all these people that have passed on. I get frustrated sometimes, waiting.For people to die?Yeah. To be honest. The guys in charge of everything rig...

Let's all sing the redneck national anthem: Settle for what you can get.