I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
("The Poisonwood Bible")
More Quotes from Barbara Kingsolver:
Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.Barbara Kingsolver
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.
Barbara Kingsolver
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
Barbara Kingsolver
But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.
Barbara Kingsolver
Why does a person even get up in the morning You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
Barbara Kingsolver
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.Joanne Woodward
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Shanks and I tend to have a lot of fun. And, oh, any of The Simpsons' episodes are my favorites too.
Richard Dean Anderson