Poisonwood Bible Quotes

#1. I don't like honors ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things.

Richard P. Feynman

#2. Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.

Gloria Steinem

#3. Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure.

Jennifer Hudson

#4. I long to set foot where no man has trod before.

Charles Darwin

#5. Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

Jo Stafford

#6. '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

#7. Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost ... May god bless the memory of the victims and in the words of scripture heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds.

Barack Obama

#8. Genius had its rewards.

Mario Puzo

#9. For a guy with only one peeper," Olsen commented, "you're doing okay." Morosely, he added: "But you'd sure be up shit creek if you lost the other.

Philip K. Dick

#10. 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

#11. No one can change yesterday, but we can all change tomorrow.

William J. Clinton

#12. If we are right with the Lord, then, as we face adversity, we can be assured that we will be blessed with faith, strength, wisdom and help from others, not only to overcome, but to learn and to grow from those experiences.

Ronald E. Poelman

#13. 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

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

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. 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

#16. The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.

George Clooney

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

Barbara Kingsolver

#18. My dear," Rose said, "you might be surprised at how much happiness you can find in the pages of the shortest love stories. Unlike penises, their length truly does not count.

Samantha Sotto

#19. Words have power, and all things of power are dangerous.

Ellery Adams

#20. Love's the son
stood stammering elocution
while the poor ship in flames went down

Elizabeth Bishop