Heartwood Conference Quotes

#1. We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in these dark times

Joachim Gauck

#2. There is something about the aroma of fresh books that's totally intoxicating. A new book has a certain clean, crisp smell full of promise that is difficult to define. Sort of like the scent and feeling of just-washed bed linens at the moment you slide your legs between them.

Debra Ginsberg

#3. It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time.

David Brenner

#4. Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

C.S. Lewis

#5. Do you remember a little phenom called step aerobics? If you do, then you know how crazy it was to take two ninety-minute classes in a row. It's incredible that I didn't die from a blunt injury to the back of my head from slipping on my own pool of sweat.

Kathy Griffin

#6. Tom Osborne, Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden were in our living room. My mom didn't know who they were!

Hines Ward

#7. I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

Keith Miller

#8. DIG Deep - get deliberate, inspired, and going.

Brene Brown

#9. There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.'
There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.

Simone De Beauvoir

#10. It's better to play to the host as though in a real conversation and let the audience listen in- which they are.

Franklyn Ajaye

#11. It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

Francis Bacon

#12. I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.

Big Sean