Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Explore a curated collection of 47 quotes by Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine ever — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re go — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscie — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-b — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water i — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
A territory is only possessed for a moment in time. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyon — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Until that moment I'd thought I could have it both ways; to be one of them, and also my husband's wife. What conceit! I — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
a single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible