Unsheltered Barbara Kingsolver Quotes & Sayings

They're titles other people give us. They don't make us who we are. If you're just a slave, then I'm nothing more than a Principe. Is that all I am, Haven? A Mafia Prince?
"No, of course not."
That's what I thought," he said. "Just because some people see us that way doesn't mean it's what we are. We'll overcome our labels together. They don't matter, they don't make us who we are. We make us who are are. Fuck those motherfuckers."
She laughed. "When did you get so smart?"
"Baby, I've always been smart," he said playfully. "I'm just lazy as hell and rarely show it. — J.M. Darhower

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation from self. — Madeleine L'Engle

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt. — Bernie Sanders

Don't let others discourage you from writing. Your peers will never see your point of view and they don't have to its your story, your journey; but keep writing and become good enough so that they will notice you as the very thing they tried to steer you from. Being a writer. — K.T. Hunter

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster. — Kurt Masur

Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology. — Fred Upton

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged. — Agnes Repplier

He dark walks, so favourable to the interviews of young lovers — William Makepeace Thackeray

All conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length. — Dorothy L. Sayers

It's not about putting forth the questions, it's about accepting the answers we ask for. — Shane Koyczan

I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process. — Carolyn See

Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic. — Robert Brady

Every good operative knows that the world is small, but the planet is big. — Ally Carter

There's nothing so kingly as kindness,
And nothing so royal as truth. — Alice Cary

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain. — John Locke