Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.
Barbara Kingsolver
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Reason
Risk
Mysterious
Right
Open
Minute
Time
High
Throw
Think
Belief
Grief
Thinking
Gone
Glory
Croak
Moving
Tomorrow
Blinds
Today
Move
Tide
Best
Minutes
Tides
More quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
Barbara Kingsolver
The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
Barbara Kingsolver
Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
Barbara Kingsolver
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
Barbara Kingsolver
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Barbara Kingsolver
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
Barbara Kingsolver
When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver
A flower is a plant's way of making love.
Barbara Kingsolver
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
Barbara Kingsolver
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
Barbara Kingsolver
Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.
Barbara Kingsolver
But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
Barbara Kingsolver
Loose lips sink ships.
Barbara Kingsolver
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
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
Barbara Kingsolver
We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
Barbara Kingsolver
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
Barbara Kingsolver
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
Barbara Kingsolver
There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
Barbara Kingsolver
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
Barbara Kingsolver
