Barbara Wood > Quotes

“We walk the paths we choose.”
― Barbara Wood, Vital Signs

“Do not fear for me, for I was born only once and i shall die only once.”
― Babara Wood Green city in the Sun

“When someone steals your goat, my son, it is roasted and eaten and you forget it. When someone steals your corn, it is ground into meal and eaten and you forget it. But when someone steals your land, it is always there and you can never forget it.”
― Babara Wood Green city in the Sun

“He says not to list the patients we save but the ones we don't kill.”
― Barbara Wood, Vital Signs

“The old dead coals fell to the wayside, warm ones sat glowing weakly on the edges; but the hot new ones, red and burning, poured their heat into the centre of cook fire.”
― Babara Wood

“The poor prayed to become rich, and the rich prayed to become richer.”
― Barbara Wood, The Blessing Stone

“Wer den Willen hat, etwas zu tun, wird von denen, die es getan haben, in den Schatten gestellt.”
― Barbara Wood

“koyaanis’qatsi.”
― Barbara Wood, Daughter of the Sun: A Novel

“malcriadas, moverse inútilmente”
― Barbara Wood, El sueño de Joanna

“¿Qué es una persona sin sentimientos? Si no hay amor ni odio, ni celos ni toda la gama de emociones que configuran la existencia humana, lo único que queda es un cascaron vacío”
― Barbara Wood, Sombras del pasado

“There was no doubt what must be done—the law was clear. Written centuries ago, the Lex Caesare decreed that if any woman died while pregnant, the living child was to be immediately cut out of her abdomen. This poor girl, whose name no one knew, was certain to die; but the baby inside her lived and must be given a chance to survive.      Selene was fearful. She had never before performed a Caesarean-law operation.”
― Barbara Wood, Soul Flame

“Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.”
― Barbara Wood

“suukya’qatsi—the Unbroken Oneness.”
― Barbara Wood, Daughter of the Sun: A Novel