Quote

The happiest people are the ones with the most community.

Barbara Kingsolver

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Ones
Community
People
Happiest

More quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

Image
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
Barbara Kingsolver
Image
Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
Barbara Kingsolver