Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Dogs

Quotes about: Dogs

• Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dog, Voice, Water

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.192, Faber & Faber

• A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dog, Thinking, Doe

• People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Dream, Dog

• Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter hustles through a curtain of jasmine to bring a bowl of tortilla soup, steaming with cilantro and lime. Cats stalk lizards among the clay pots around the fountain, doves settle into the flowering vines and coo their prayers, thankful for the existence of lizards. The potted plants silently exhale, outgrowing their clay pots. Like Mexico's children they stand pinched and patient in last year's too-small shoes.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dog, Prayer, Children

• there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dog, People, Political

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