937 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

To think is not always to see.

Our plans are small and somewhat absurd.

It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.