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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 21045c4 | You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history rather than a spectator" Father Fernando Cardenal" | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e062ee4 | Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. | illusions truth | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 131e733 | This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9e890b5 | Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone: in our own nation we export 1.1 million tons of potatoes, while we also import 1.4 million tons. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 33caa5c | It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5c8112c | The Pueblo story is that everyone started out underground. People and animals, everything. And then the badger dug a hole and let everybody out. They climbed out the hole and from then on they lived on top of the ground. When they die they go back under. [...] 'I always try to think of it that way,' he said, after a minute. "He had a big adventure up here, and then went home." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 7a744cd | If you go to visit hell, you will see a room like this kitchen. There is a pot of delicious stew on the table, with the most delicate aroma you can imagine. All around, people sit, like us. Only they are dying of starvation. They are jibbering and jabbering," he looked extra hard at Mrs. Parsons, "but they cannot get a bite of this wonderful stew God has made for them. Now, why is that?" "Because they're choking? For all eternity?" Lou Ann .. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 49a1b0f | In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 57c8a10 | About how your kids aren't really yours, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b9d4c18 | He asked me if the alligator was a national symbol of the United States, because you saw them everywhere on people's shirts, just above the heart. | immigrants | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 0e7f90b | The flatness was stultifying. She wouldn't say this aloud because in light of other worries it seemed self-indulgent, but Willa missed mountains. Missed them hard, with the psychic equivalent of a toothache. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a8fb6dd | Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."--Barbara Kingsolver Copyright" | Austin J. Bailey | ||
| bb82b21 | A mother's unfulfilled ambitions lie heaviest on her daughters. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 730ef05 | They rock against each other, holding on, and the birds in the forest raise their voices to drown out the secret of creation. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3278c94 | Oh, whatever would I do without my child-progeny sister to tell me what to do." "Prodigy," I corrected." | rachel-price | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 2dca73e | The traffic was moving about the speed of a government | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3f05c68 | Don Enrique says a full moon pulls up the highest tides of the month, at midday and midnight. And it pulls them down to their lowest ebb when it is rising or setting. So says a man in a frock coat and breeches who, if he tried to row a boat, would fall out instantly and drown. But Leandro said the same thing about the moon and high tide, so it might be true. How can you know if the moon is going toward full, or disappearing? This evening th.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| afb4276 | Thatcher thought Mary was not invisible, but as free as any woman could be. And in the grip of fresh discoveries, always. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ae0be28 | The guys in charge of everything right now are so old. They really are, Mom. Older than you. They figured out the meaning of life in, I guess, the nineteen fifties and sixties. When it looked like there would always be plenty of everything. And they're applying that to now. It's just so ridiculous. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 6710040 | After a while Estevan said, "What I really hate is not belonging in any place. To be unwanted everywhere." | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 5e9d603 | Conquest and liberation and democracy and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 81c18ff | A delicate business, telling the truth. So long as Landis writes a happier falsehood for these men to tell themselves, they can believe in opportunity. They are the nearly rich, | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 25b43a5 | There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 390cf1f | You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist of history rather than a spectator. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3252b2f | There are Christians, and there are Christians. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| f3059a5 | You can't just sashay into the jungle aiming to change it all over to the Christian style, without expecting the jungle to change you right back. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| e0c3f82 | Don't dare presume there's shame in the lot of a woman who carries on. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 95dc28c | If people played their channels right, they could be spared from disagreement for the length of their natural lives. Finally she got it. The need for so many channels. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| d50cb0c | The main barrier standing between ourselves and a local-food culture is not price, but attitude. The most difficult requirements are patience and a bit of restraint -- virtues that are hardly the property of the wealthy. These virtues seem to find precious little shelter, in fact, in any modern quarter of this nation founded by Puritans. Furthermore, we apply them selectively: browbeating our teenagers with the message that they should wait.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 61548cd | Several studies, including research done by Allison Byrum of the American Chemical Society, have shown fruits and vegetables grown without pesticides and herbicides to contain 50 to 60 percent more antioxidants than their sprayed counterparts. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 53e2067 | from an entry by her daughter Camille] On the other hand, if cattle remain on pasture right to the end, that kind of beef is called "grass finished." The difference between this and CAFO beef are not just relevant to how kindly you feel about animals: meat and eggs of pastured animals also have a measurably different nutrient composition. A lot of recent research has been published on this subject, which is slowly reaching the public. USDA .. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 10c1615 | from an entry by her daughter Camille] ...research published fifteen years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine: eggs from chickens that ranged freely on grass have about half the cholesterol of factory-farmed eggs, and it's mostly HDL, the cholesterol that's good for you. They also have more vitamin E, beta-carotene and omega-3 fatty acids than their cooped-up counterparts. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 7162776 | Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise. | humans noise | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| d41daf7 | Thomas Jefferson presumed on the basis of colonial experience that farming and democracy are intimately connected. Cultivation of land meets the needs of the farmer, the neighbors, and the community, and and keeps people independent from domineering centralized powers. In Jefferson's time, [George] was the king. In ours, it's multinational corporations. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 821b622 | Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages. | mortality | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| ab44c5d | The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you. DEUTERONOMY 28:8 | Sheri Rose Shepherd | ||
| 65353f0 | Dear God, Help me to trust in You, and as I do, give me renewed strength. Give me eyes to soar above my circumstances and give me a renewed passion to run in Your strength and not my own. I pray from this day forward that I will not grow faint but finish strong. Amen. | Sheri Rose Shepherd | ||
| a6b69a8 | The truth is that what we feel eventually comes out in our words and then our actions. If we are not careful, the actions we take when we are hurting will eventually become our legacy. | Sheri Rose Shepherd | ||
| adaa195 | I've heard it said that prayer doesn't change a situation for you so much as it changes you for the situation. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| d85a5a8 | David stood up and said: Sorry Lichtenstein, but I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 7b7d1a2 | I dedicate my work today to the furtherance of all things good. Whether I am paid or not, whether I am working out in the world or planting my own garden, I dedicate whatever I am doing today to the uplifting of all things. May the activity of my mind and work of my hands be of service to the healing of the world. Today I remember that there is only one work: to be who I am capable of being, to do what I am capable of doing to make the worl.. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| a495fb5 | I needn't prove anything to anyone. I am blessed as a child of God. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 35e0dcb | A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us. | breaking-free chains empowerment enlightenment healing-past-wounds healing-the-past inner-strength magic miracle-mindset miracles miraculous personal-power power-of-love reinventing-yourself self-empowerment spiritual-growth spiritual-healing spiritual-power spiritual-rebirth spiritual-reinterpretation spiritual-strength spiritual-wisdom spirituality | Marianne Williamson | |
| 821a1ab | We're not without hope; we just haven't been seeing it. We're not without power; we just haven't been claiming it. We're not without love; we just haven't been living it. | Marianne Williamson |