Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Grief, Past, Thinking

• Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Real, Past, Secret

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.179, Faber & Faber

• Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mistake, Past, Sheep

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.308, Faber & Faber

• The past is all we know of the future.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Past, Knows

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.316, Faber & Faber

• Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Past, Culture, Slingshots

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.436, Faber & Faber

• My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Past, Wind

• High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Fashion, Past, Salad

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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