Quotes about Impact
He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
— Barbara Kingsolver
What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
— Barbara Kingsolver
A mother's unfulfilled ambitions lie heaviest on her daughters.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The first to fall in any war are forgotten.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Every kind of weather is intensified by warming.
— 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
It's the radio, you see. The radio makes everyone feel the same thing at the same time. Instead of millions of various thoughts, one big psychological fixation. The radio commands our gut response.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
— Stephen Covey
What we believe about ourselves and our purpose has a powerful impact on how we live, how we love, and what we learn.
— Stephen Covey