Top 100 Heaton Quotes
#1. I loved 'Everybody Loves Raymond' because I like Ray and I thought it was beautifully cast, I thought it was great writing. I thought Patricia Heaton was wonderful.
Bob Newhart
#2. When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.
Patricia Heaton
#3. No one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.
Mary Heaton Vorse
#4. When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry.
Mary Heaton Vorse
#6. Magic of Southern expressions? Similes and metaphorical allusions. They are the yellow highlighter of conversation.
Tim Heaton
#7. You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.
Patricia Heaton
#10. This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.
Patricia Heaton
#11. Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
Patricia Heaton
#12. I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
Patricia Heaton
#14. Bureaucracies are a strange beast whose only goal is obesity.
Tim Heaton
#15. In the South, history clings to you like a wet blanket. Outside your door the past awaits in Indian mounds, plantation ruins, heaving sidewalks and homestead graveyards; each slowly reclaimed by the kudzu of time.
Tim Heaton
#16. I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.
Patricia Heaton
#17. Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.
Patricia Heaton
#18. In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world
Mary Heaton Vorse
#19. The further your job is from the money, the closer you are to the bullshit.
Tim Heaton
#20. I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.
Patricia Heaton
#22. Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.
Patricia Heaton
#23. I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
Patricia Heaton
#25. My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.
Patricia Heaton
#26. Apollyon stared at her. Was he making a terrible mistake by helping her? A part of him said to leave now before it was too late and he became too deeply involved with her. He couldn't though. She had cast a spell on him. And he was a slave to her.
Felicity Heaton
#27. You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.
Patricia Heaton
#28. God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.
Patricia Heaton
#29. Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.
Patricia Heaton
#30. It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
Patricia Heaton
#31. Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
Patricia Heaton
#33. The snide little fucker actually paid you a visit in person?
~ Her Demonic Angel ~
Felicity Heaton
#34. So, you want the dirt on Hell boy or not?
~ Taylor (to Erin about Veiron) Her Demonic Angel ~
Felicity Heaton
#35. Any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.
Mary Heaton Vorse
#36. Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.
Patricia Heaton
#37. From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.
Patricia Heaton
#38. To living in the South: If you've never had a Porterhouse, everything tastes like baloney.
Tim Heaton
#39. Better to be a guarded person than an open book
RJ Heaton
#40. I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.
Mary Heaton Vorse
#41. You only live once this time around ... have no fear, take every chance, live, laugh, love.
Rosanne Lombardo Heaton
#42. I had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for peaceably demonstrating that they wanted work. I had only known how workers lived. Now I was face to face with what our society did to workers who could get no work.
Mary Heaton Vorse
#43. Never try to make Americans or foreigners feel at home - had they wished to feel at home, they would have remained in their own county.
Rose Henniker Heaton
#44. Now... all opposed to being rescued, raise your hands, otherwise, I'd like to get the fuck out of here
~Veiron, Her Demonic Angel ~
Felicity Heaton
#45. I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.
Patricia Heaton
#46. If there is such a things as "race", there is only the Human one.
Tim Heaton
#47. I find it impossible to subscribe to a philosophy that believes that the destruction of human life is a legitimate solution to a problem that is mostly social, economic and psychological, ... In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice.
Patricia Heaton
#48. What if all the forces of society were bent upon developing [poor] children? What if society's business were making people insteadof profits? How much of their creative beauty of spirit would remain unquenched through the years? How much of this responsiveness would follow them through life?
Mary Heaton Vorse
#49. Those in the know ain't telling me or you.
Tim Heaton
#50. All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better
only if the workers protest
Mary Heaton Vorse
#51. Whether it be in the sun, the rain, or the snow,
You should always have fun, wherever you go.
Think of all the amusing things you can do,
To bring much laughter and happiness too.
Susanne Alexander-Heaton
#52. I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
Patricia Heaton
#53. I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.
Patricia Heaton
#54. I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.
Patricia Heaton
#55. It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened their mouths to sing.
Mary Heaton Vorse
#56. My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
Patricia Heaton
#57. A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
Patricia Heaton
#58. I have zero tolerance for people with zero tolerance.
Tim Heaton
#59. The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Mary Heaton Vorse
#60. And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
Patricia Heaton
#61. And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
Patricia Heaton
#62. I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
Patricia Heaton
#63. What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process.
Patricia Heaton
#65. You cannot be in a close and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ and remain so tormented.
Lisa Heaton
#66. Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
Patricia Heaton
#67. True love, and what it is, and how do you know what it is. Is it just chemistry, or is it years and years of commitment and being together and hanging in there building a history? And how do you find both?
Patricia Heaton
#68. Even-money that my liver lasts through my wife's metamorphosis to my mother-in-law.
Tim Heaton
#69. Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.
Patricia Heaton
#70. As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
Patricia Heaton
#71. Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.
Patricia Heaton
#73. There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.
Patricia Heaton
#74. I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.
Patricia Heaton
#75. I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
Patricia Heaton
#76. It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
Patricia Heaton
#77. Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
Patricia Heaton
#78. In Hell ... bad is good ... and I am second only to the Devil.
Felicity Heaton
#79. I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
Patricia Heaton
#80. We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.
Patricia Heaton
#81. I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
Patricia Heaton
#82. I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.
Patricia Heaton
#83. If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more primitive mode of social intercourse, picking our friends the way children do, - because we like them, - spending time enough with them to get some real good out of them.
Mary Heaton Vorse
#84. Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.
Patricia Heaton
#85. We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
Patricia Heaton
#86. Peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.
Mary Heaton Vorse
#87. An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman.
Rose Henniker Heaton
#88. I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
Patricia Heaton
#89. I had four C-sections and my stomach looked like the map of the world. My breasts were hanging down to here from breastfeeding those babies, and my nipples were like platters. I wanted to fit into the gowns that I finally got to wear.
Patricia Heaton
#90. My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I'm not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself.
Patricia Heaton
#91. One neural network called bidirectional associative memory (BAM) allows you to provide the value and receive the key.
Jeff Heaton
#92. I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.
Patricia Heaton
#93. I'm not unlucky at love, just incredibly lucky with celibacy.
Tim Heaton
#94. This philosophy of hate, of religious and racial intolerance, with its passionate urge toward war, is loose in the world. It is the enemy of democracy; it is the enemy of all the fruitful and spiritual sides of life. It is our responsibility, as individuals and organizations, to resist this.
Mary Heaton Vorse
#95. Yoga pants often answer questions I didn't ask.
Tim Heaton
#96. Hey G-Town Gal: turn your underwear inside out! Then u only have to do laundry every 2 weeks - saves on detergent & trips to Laundromat!
Patricia Heaton
#97. And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.
Patricia Heaton
#98. I always know I'm going to lose my job. It's either going to be canceled next week or next year or nine years from now, but I always know my job is going to go.
Patricia Heaton
#99. Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.
Patricia Heaton
#100. On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.
Patricia Heaton
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