Heart Quotes

"Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart"

William Dean Howells, Author

"He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart"

Washington Irving, Writer

"Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography"

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

"Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist

"Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale"

Robert Falcon Scott, Explorer

"And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'"

Kanye West, Musician

"Biological age, I think because I've been taking care of myself for so long I know not just my reproductive organs but my heart, you know, are much younger than - than what I am"

Cheryl Tiegs, Model

"All the windows of my heart I open to the day"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"Stick with your heart and you'll be fine"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

"I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart"

Kim Hunter, Actress

"I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good"

Thomas Hooker, Leader

"And in the middle of one of those scenes, I suddenly felt my heart just open: it was overwhelming, to the point where I got teary-eyed. Never would I have thought anything like that could happen in a love scene"

Sheryl Lee, Actor

"When you watch my films, you're feeling my heart"

Donnie Yen, Actor

"It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint"

Sid Waddell, Entertainer

"The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image"

Charles W. Chesnutt, Novelist

"When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart"

Helen Rowland, Journalist

"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal"

Bishop Robert South, Theologian

"The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me"

William Congreve, Poet

"When the heart is right, 'for' and 'against' are forgotten"

Zhuang Zi, Philosopher

"Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart"

Phil Jackson, Coach

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

"I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies"

Mark Burnett, Businessman

"When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart"

Edwin Booth, Actor

"I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul"

Lee Atwater, Politician

"I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age"

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart"

An Wang, Businessman

"A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart"

Tom Brady, Athlete

"Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town"

Paul Verlaine, Poet

"O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire"

Lewis J. Bates

"There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest"

Bugs Baer

"The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise"

Robert Fitzgerald, Author

"I've never had my heart broken"

Sally Field, Actress

"Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?"

Max Muller, Educator

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