Heart Quotes

"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best"

Philip James Bailey, Poet

"When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground"

Ashlee Simpson, Musician

"I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature"

Merle Haggard, Musician

"The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people"

Meir Kahane, Clergyman

"The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others"

Edward Irving, Clergyman

"I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head"

Katharine Whitehorn

"At the same time, I definitely want to expand my fan base but not at the expense of prostituting my music or heart"

George Duke, Musician

"A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see"

Phyllis Battelle, Journalist

"If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature"

Phyllis Battelle, Journalist

"What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation"

Gale Norton, Public Servant

"I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart"

Elizabeth Blackwell, Scientist

"One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear"

Marilyn French, Author

"I only do what comes from the heart"

LL Cool J, Musician

"I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give"

LL Cool J, Musician

"It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by"

Lili Taylor, Actress

"Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"I will never have a heart attack. I give them"

George Steinbrenner, Businessman

"As long as your heart beats, one is never too old"

Compay Segundo, Musician

"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility"

Vaclav Havel, Leader

"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital"

George Steiner, Critic

"I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God"

Tim Tebow, Athlete

"The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate"

Jeremy Brett, Actor

"Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death"

Daryl Hall, Musician

"Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen"

Shmuel Y. Agnon

"Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me"

Lena Horne, Actress

"It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel"

Ben Harper, Musician

"About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load"

Alan Thicke, Actor

"Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer"

Jason Segel, Actor

"My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race"

Emerson Fittipaldi, Celebrity

"Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them"

Louise Bogan, Poet

"I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office"

John Boehner, Politician

"One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre"

David Soul, Actor

"To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit"

Robert Fripp, Musician

"Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey"

Ouida, Novelist

"It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly"

Emily Watson, Actress

"But when Neil called, I have to say that my heart soared. And the reason was, because it said so much about his recovery... that he was coming back to the world of the living"

Alex Lifeson, Musician

"I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can. The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease"

Jeremy Piven, Actor

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