"After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth."

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Barbara Kingsolver

#People Quotes #Parent Quotes #Missionary Quotes

“My ultimate goal is to really be a huge music artist to the point where one day people forget that I was on a reality show.”
“Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish”
“Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay; Temper thy joy: this, too, shall pass away. Art thou in danger? Still let reason sway, And cling to hope: this, too, shall pass away. Tempted art thou? In all thine anguish lay One truth to heart: this, too, shall pass away. Do rays of loftier glory round thee play? Kinglike art thou? This, too, shall pass away! Whate'er thou art, wher'er thy footsteps stray, Heed these wise words: This, too, shall pass away.”
“The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.”

Source : Arthur Symons (1998). “Cities and Sea-Coasts and Islands”, p.162, Northwestern University Press
“to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.”
“How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?”
“We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.”
“Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.”

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