Heart Quotes

"I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker"

Jason Alexander, Actor

"Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order"

Robert Jackson, Statesman

"A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats"

Neal Barnard, Author

"My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player"

Eric Williams, Historian

"I'm responsive to my public, but I also follow my heart"

Kenny G, Musician

"Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere"

Linda Lingle, Politician

"Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality"

Nadia Boulanger, Musician

"For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed"

Thomas Malory, Author

"I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life"

Leni Riefenstahl, Director

"And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere"

Daniel Berrigan, Clergyman

"The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart"

Henry Cisneros, Politician

"My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research"

Renny Harlin, Director

"He has your finger, but I have your heart"

Brian Celio, Novelist

"There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy"

Michael Lewis

"I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win"

Maxine Waters, Politician

"As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green"

John Thorn, Historian

"There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life"

Charles Ives, Composer

"If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you"

Levon Helm, Musician

"It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up"

Sheryl Crow, Musician

"The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest"

Roseanne Barr, Actress

"You might not be able to stomach it, but as long as you can mind it, your heart will be all right"

Brian Celio, Novelist

"No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved"

John Knox, Clergyman

"I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was"

Bill McCartney, Celebrity

"Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around"

Reba McEntire, Musician

"You break her heart, I'll break your neck"

Vin Diesel, Actor

"Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock"

Ann Wilson, Musician

"My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give"

Scott Stapp, Musician

"Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it"

Simone Schwarz-Bart

"We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us"

Maria Cantwell, Politician

"We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick"

Randy Moss, Athlete

"I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted"

Randy Moss, Athlete

"Great thoughts always come from the heart"

Luc de Clapiers, Writer

"I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges"

George Carey, Clergyman

"Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film"

Jared Leto, Actor

"I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play"

Robert Anderson, Soldier

"Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive"

Richard Eberhart, Poet

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