Barbara Quotes
A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.
...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.
you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.
It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.
I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things.
Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters foreseen.
My mission is to tell the story of the birth of ourselves as a universal humanity, awakening all of us to our unique opportunity to participate through our own conscious evolution.
In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.
People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.
To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.
Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.
Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.
There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?
Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.
She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.
Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.
You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.
Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.
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.
Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.