Barbara King Quotes

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is! - Barbara Kingsolver

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. - Barbara Kingsolver

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature. - 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

The truth needs so little rehearsal. - Barbara Kingsolver

The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. - Barbara Kingsolver

The National League asked each local league to do something to commemorate September 11. We wanted something endorsing the ideas of community service, communication and volunteerism. - Barbara King

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else. - Barbara Kingsolver

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. - 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

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