Top 97 Helen Hunt Quotes
#1. Helen Hunt is terrific, and I got to do a couple of guest spots with Helen and Paul Reiser on 'Mad About You.'
Lyle Lovett
#2. I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.
Helen Hunt
#3. Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#4. I feel that faith and feminism have a deep relationship to each other and that both are responses to the deep human yearning for connection and for peace on earth, and that they both have a vision of universal human equity.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#5. Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted,
spite of ugly looks and threats,
And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!
Helen Hunt Jackson
#6. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second; and so on till death.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#7. The movement has kept itself from full development by denying, ignoring, and rejecting parts of itself, including its spiritual legacy.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#8. It's very healing to me to be a very present mother. I hope that it's also good for her. But it's definitely good for me.
Helen Hunt
#9. I've been offered a couple of shows that have been very successful, but they weren't right for me. It has to be something I could be excited about for a long time.
Helen Hunt
#10. But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere.
Helen Hunt
#11. As a political movement, feminism seeks to transform society by challenging and changing social institutions. Religion, on the other hand, seeks first to transform individuals through a personal relationship with God, which then results in a desire to work for the transformation of society.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#12. There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#13. On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#14. The tongue is more easily controlled than the features of the face; and though the heart may be secret, the face is transparent.
Helen Hunt
#16. A version of the golden rule to do unto others as you would have them do unto you is present in every major religion for a reason. Relationships are the place where the mystical experience can become alive.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#17. Will not the Senorita trust me?"
Ramona smiled faintly through her tears. "Yes," she said. "I will trust you. You are Alessandro, are you not?"
"Yes, Senorita," he answered, greatly surprised, "I am Alessandro.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#19. Next time! In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?
Helen Hunt Jackson
#21. If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#22. I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.
Helen Hunt
#23. One of Dr. Johnson's ingredients of happiness was, "A little less time than you want." That means always to have so many things you want to see, to have, and to do, that no day is quite long enough for all you think you would like to get done before you go to bed.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#25. You either have a baby, want a baby, or don't want a baby, but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or 40s.
Helen Hunt
#26. Pity and friendship seek different habitations.
Helen Hunt
#28. Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.
Helen Hunt
#29. Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.
Helen Hunt
#31. When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome ... and then, of course, you spoke.
Helen Hunt
#32. Sojourner [Truth]'s life exemplifies the process that occurs within ourselves as we grow to understand that we hold the authority to shape our own lives. This inner authority came when she embraced all of herself, which enabled her to speak from an authentic voice.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#33. I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.
Helen Hunt
#34. I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.
Helen Hunt
#36. The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#37. O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#38. Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#39. As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#40. We can live a life full and complete, thinking with our heads but living from our hearts.
Helen Hunt
#41. Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#42. I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#43. I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I've been in. Why? I don't know. I would feel like Norma Desmond. And I have a kid, so time is at a premium.
Helen Hunt
#44. I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.
Helen Hunt
#45. There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#46. The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament ... Its gold is as distinct a value to the eye as the nugget gold is in the pocket.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#47. You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.
Helen Hunt
#48. I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.
Helen Hunt
#49. When we fracture our potential for united action and divide ourselves along social, political, economic, or religious lines, we diminish our power.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#51. I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard.
Helen Hunt
#52. I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.
Helen Hunt
#53. But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each other, fell on her ear, her eyes sought the sky, and she heard a voice saying, Majella!
Helen Hunt Jackson
#55. I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love.
Helen Hunt
#56. O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.
Helen Hunt
#57. By seeing ourselves honestly, we have the capacity to understand others more deeply.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#58. The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.
Helen Hunt
#59. I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.
Helen Hunt
#60. These two revolutions of faith and feminism, though very different, were built upon the same fundamental assumption: every person is intrinsically as valuable and worthy of love as any other.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#61. For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,- Weeps like a tired child who had, Playing with flowers, lost its way.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#63. Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#64. To me, relationship is sacred because the spirit of God is manifest in empathic connection.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#66. Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#67. The new is older than the old;
And newest friend is oldest friend in this:
That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss
One thing we sought.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#68. We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.
Helen Hunt
#69. Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?
Helen Hunt Jackson
#70. If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#71. Teresa [of Avila]'s story dismantles the common belief that all those chosen for sainthood are flawless in personality and character. Indeed, she would want us to consider her contradictions and struggles as integral to her sainthood.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#72. The point of telling our stories, even if only to ourselves, is to help us resurrect the parts we have buried. When we unearth them, even if it's difficult, we can integrate them into our sense of who we are. Often in our buried self our true power lies.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#73. The goldenrod is yellow,
The corn is turning brown ...
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#74. My deepest wounds and greatest strengths lie in my ability to see the potential for relationship in my life.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#75. The women's movement has not found a way to reconnect comfortably with the religious impulse that was central to its origin.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#76. The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.
Helen Hunt
#77. O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#78. The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.
Helen Hunt
#79. By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#80. I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.
Helen Hunt
#81. It's getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.
Helen Hunt
#82. When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#83. I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.
Helen Hunt
#85. O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,
sweeter days are thine!
Helen Hunt Jackson
#86. But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#87. I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.
Helen Hunt
#88. I've worked for a long time, but I got to the point where I felt like, I am out here so far, how do I get back? I want to have a real life, a personal life. I didn't want a personal life I just visited.
Helen Hunt
#89. If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they're not cool. And I hope people feel OK about not being cool.
Helen Hunt
#90. She traversed the spectrum of human emotion, and found herself to be flawed, but trusted God to accept all of her. Her vulnerability and openness led to her empowerment.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#91. The voice of one who goes before, to makeThe paths of June more beautiful, is thineSweet May!
Helen Hunt Jackson
#92. I have to say, my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I'm not exactly one of the four girls everyone's chasing at the moment.
Helen Hunt
#93. Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often a face which has trace of great sorrow all over it, till the smile breaks. Such a smile transfigures: such a smile, if the artful but knew it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.
Helen Hunt
#94. I've made choices that work with my family. I want to work and I want to be with my family so I just walk the tight-rope of showing up for both those things.
Helen Hunt
#95. Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off.
Helen Hunt
#96. The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#97. When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.
Helen Hunt Jackson
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