Quotes About The Poisonwood Bible

#1. 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

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

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. '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

#4. A clever, thoughtless person is one of the most terrifying things there is.

Patrick Rothfuss

#5. We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.

Marian Wright Edelman

#6. When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

Iain Duncan Smith

#7. Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.

David Eagleman

#8. The further you are in the wilderness, the closer the Promised Land is.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. We learn from tragedy. Slowly.

Josephine Hart

#10. No, nothing can change my world
Ichigo Kurosaki, Black Moon Rising

Tite Kubo

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

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. Having to haul around extra poundage was far too much effort, so he saw to it that he never put it on and he kept himself in trim because doing things with decent muscles was far less effort than trying to achieve things with bags of flab.

Terry Pratchett

#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. Another of Madiba's great lessons: you can have a vast difference of opinion with someone but that never justifies disrespect.

Zelda La Grange

#15. 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

#16. Scorsese, Spielberg, Tarantino, Peter Jackson - all of you: I'm here, I'm ready. I can do funny faces, I can sing, I can dance. Hire me!

Cara Delevingne

#17. A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#18. Whoever does not believe in God will not believe in the people of God. But he who believes in the people of God will also see their holiness, even if he did not believe in it at all before.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky