Heart Quotes

"Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood"

Elizabeth Ashley, Actress

"When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart"

John Bunyan, Clergyman

"It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart"

Basil Rathbone, Actor

"They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon"

Bobby Sands, Activist

"We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too"

Quincy Jones, Musician

"Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son"

Kent Nerburn, Author

"If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right"

Maxwell Anderson, Playwright

"The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty "

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, Educator

"Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin"

Simone Schwarz-Bart

"I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover"

Beth Gibbons, Musician

"It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God"

Albert Barnes, Theologian

"I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode"

Kate Winslet, Actress

"We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart"

Angie Martinez, Musician

"The heart jungle drum beat finds its voice in love and matchsticks"

Isabel Yosito, Artist

"Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart"

Thomas Boston, Clergyman

"Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!"

Daniel Pinkwater, Author

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder"

Thomas Haynes Bayly, Writer

"It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change"

Amber Valletta, Model

"I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart"

Amber Valletta, Model

"I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right"

Dana Plato, Actress

"That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people"

Norman Lear, Producer

"What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart"

Raoul Dufy, Artist

"His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do"

Maurice Ashley, Celebrity

"I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football"

David Walliams, Actor

"A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art"

Wendy Carlos, Musician

"My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life"

Nick Cassavetes, Actor

"I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality"

Sydney Carter, Poet

"We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union"

Guy Verhofstadt, Statesman

"We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs"

John Denver, Musician

"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart"

John Bunyan, Clergyman

"Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover"

Shakira, Musician

"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart"

Shakira, Musician

"I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience"

David Coverdale, Musician

"If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart"

Chris Evert, Athlete

"I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart"

Frank Keating

"Avarice, the sphincter of the heart"

Matthew Green, Poet

"Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command"

Isabel Yosito, Artist

"I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear"

Benjamin F. Wade, Politician

"I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear"

Giuseppe Verdi, Composer

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