Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mothers Day, Mom, Daughter

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, September 1990.

• 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

  Father, Mistake, Believe

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.441, Faber & Faber

• The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Father, Differences, Tasks

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.70, Faber & Faber

• Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Father, Holiday, Mean

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.30, Faber & Faber

• For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like a plot of land. To work her, plow her under, rain down a dreadful poison upon her. Miraculously, it causes these girls to grow. They elongate on the pale slender stalks of their longing, like sunflowers with heavy heads. You can shield them with your body and soul, trying to absorb that awful rain, but they'll still move toward him. Without cease they'll bend to his light.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Girl, Daughter, Father

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.162, Faber & Faber

• My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Father, Coats

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.63, Faber & Faber

• Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Father, Heart, Men

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.352, Faber & Faber

• Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Father, Rain, Garden

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.60, Faber & Faber

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