Large Hearts Quotes

#1. Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life.

Mary Roach

#2. It was a large heart with lots of hearts growing smaller inside, and piercing from the outside rim to the smallest heart was an arrow.

Maya Angelou

#3. The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing a special sense of sympathy for all who suffer and fail of justice.

Fannie Barrier Williams

#4. The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

Alain De Botton

#5. It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

Samuel Alexander

#6. I have a quick vision of myself tackling them into a large display of cereal boxes; pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars and green clovers turning into colored chalk beneath their faces as I slam them into the tiled floor. Magically delicious carnage.

Mia Sheridan

#7. Heart, you were never hot
Nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot

Wilfred Owen

#8. As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

Terence McKenna

#9. My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American television was reprehensible, so I was raised on the BBC. I kind of agreed with her. We watched American news, though.

Joss Whedon

#10. And," he continued, his strange smile gleaming, "as I see it, our hearts are not so different in size. I murdered my father. You murdered yours. Is that something you did with a large heart?

Kristin Cashore

#11. What this means is that children, homemakers, executives, farmers, and long-living persons can all have high ego strength and good mental health if they possess the courage, humor, and flexibility of equilibrium between their rational and metaphoric minds.

Bob Samples

#12. Youth is the time when hearts are large.

Herman Melville

#13. What we want with all our hearts will determine in large degree whether we can claim our right to the companionship of the Holy Ghost, without which there can be no spiritual nourishing.

Henry B. Eyring

#14. The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#15. Tears were a women's guns, to be shed when no other weapon would work.

Glendon Swarthout

#16. We can do anything. It's not because our hearts are large, they're not, it's what we struggle with. The attempt to say Come over. Bring your friends. It's a potluck, I'm making pork chops, I'm making those long noodles you love so much.

Richard Siken

#17. She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.

Pat Conroy

#18. When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with them. The readiness to believe evil about others is in large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts.

Fulton J. Sheen

#19. I have a lot of reason to believe, as we saw in the 2012 election, most Americans don't agree with the extremists on any side of an issue, but there needs to continue to be an effort to find common ground, or even take it to higher ground on behalf of the future.

Hillary Clinton

#20. All men should give books instead of flowers.

Amber Scott

#21. All I can tell you is this. Some hearts break from grief and some from joy. Some even break from love. But hearts break because they are too small to contain the gifts life gives us. Your task will be to let your heart grow large enough not to break." Namet

Catherine M. Wilson

#22. When I was a grown-up I was just like you, and I did all the things you do. But it was hard to be that tall, so I decided I'd be small.

Nichole Hansen

#23. Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

Thomas Carlyle

#24. Don't just follow your passion but something larger than yourself.

Steve Jobs

#25. The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

Lord Byron

#26. The prince's strength was often touted as being physical. But Vhalla was beginning to learn that the man known for breaking hearts seemed to have a rather large one of his own.

Elise Kova