Quotes about Growth
Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I walked through the valley of my fate, is all, and learned to love what I could lose.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Move on. Walk forward into the light.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It is in his absence I prosper.
— Barbara Kingsolver
That's high school for you, a bevy of people unfit for adult life encounters in any form.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Every kid has it tough. Being a little person in a big world with nobody taking you very seriously is tough.
— Barbara Kingsolver
People change, she said. Not everything stays with you all your life.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story
— Barbara Kingsolver
The daily workâthat goes on, it adds up. It goes into the ground, into crops, into children's bellies and their bright eyes. Good things don't get lost.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If the grown-up version of me could have one chance at walking backwards into this story, part of me wishes I could sit down on the back pew with that pissed-off kid in his overly tight church clothes and Darkhawk attitude, and tell him: You think you're giant but you are such a small speck in the screwed-up world. This is not about you.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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