Poisonwood Quotes & Sayings

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime
With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible. — Barbara Kingsolver

People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in fundamentally unobtrusive ways into social control organisations has risen dramatically. — Whitfield Diffie

Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? — Barbara Kingsolver

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room. — Charles Dickens

Listen. 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. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow. — Barbara Kingsolver

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth. — Barbara Kingsolver

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. — Barbara Kingsolver

God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill. — Thomas Watson

She has the kind of beauty that shames your understanding of the word.
She is the waking dream I've had for so long. — Kirk Diedrich

You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one. — Nora Roberts

'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author's writing. — Tess Gerritsen

Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies. — Barbara Kingsolver