Quotes about Resilience
After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. —WALLACE STEVENS, "The Well Dressed Man with a Beard
— Barbara Kingsolver
In the scullery kitchens and probably the salt mines of this world, many a child is not so much raised as hammered into shape, Artie. To be of use. Surviving by the grace of utility alone.
— Barbara Kingsolver
No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
— 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
I'm saying when God slams a door on you it's probably a shitstorm. You're going to end up in rubble. But it's okay because without all that crap overhead, you're standing in the daylight.
— Barbara Kingsolver
People had to manage terrible truths.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story
— Barbara Kingsolver
He's that same kind of good like you are. Like there's some metal or something in you that won't melt down, no matter what.
— Barbara Kingsolver
For some, a lousy day's work will get you yelled at. For farmers, it's live or die.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I went on foot because I still had feet to carry me.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Here, if any terrorists came flying over, they'd look down on trashed-out mine craters and blown-up mountains and say, "Keep going. This place already got taken out." It was hard to see how September 11 was my fight. As far as doing good for my fellow man, my better option was football.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The tree was intact, not cut or broken by wind. What a waste. After maybe centuries of survival it had simply let go of the ground, the wide fist of its root mass ripped up and resting naked above a clay gash in the wooded mountainside. Like herself, it just seemed to have come loose from its station in life.
— Barbara Kingsolver