Barbara Kingsolver Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Barbara Kingsolver quotes, Barbara Kingsolver sayings, and Barbara Kingsolver proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run. Barbara Kingsolver
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't._ Barbara Kingsolver
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning. Barbara Kingsolver
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. Barbara Kingsolver
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. Barbara Kingsolver
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. Barbara Kingsolver
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. Barbara Kingsolver
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. Barbara Kingsolver
The truth needs so little rehearsal. Barbara Kingsolver
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. Barbara Kingsolver
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. Barbara Kingsolver
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still. Barbara Kingsolver
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. Barbara Kingsolver
If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life. Barbara Kingsolver
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards. Barbara Kingsolver
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. Barbara Kingsolver
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. Barbara Kingsolver
This forest eats itself and lives forever. Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof. Barbara Kingsolver
Let's all sing the redneck national anthem: Settle for what you can get. Barbara Kingsolver
To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. Barbara Kingsolver
A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever. Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. Barbara Kingsolver
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
Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers. Barbara Kingsolver
A meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth. Barbara Kingsolver
A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right. Barbara Kingsolver
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder. Barbara Kingsolver
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture. Barbara Kingsolver
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke. Barbara Kingsolver