My Heartstrings Quotes

#1. I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.

Gordon Lightfoot

#2. I sing the song of my heartstrings, alone in the eternal muteness, in the face of God.

Yone Noguchi

#3. I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heartstrings that way. But whenever I experience a strong emotion in life, I definitely have to throw myself into my songwriting. It is very therapeutic.

Ella Henderson

#4. His touch does strange things to me. It makes me feel things. Things I'm not supposed to feel. Things I can't allow myself to feel. It's like his fingers are strumming my heartstrings, pulling, plucking, twisting, and I'm helpless. Completely and utterly helpless.

Beth Michele

#5. I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.

Amanda Donohoe

#6. Words Like Freedom
There are words like Freedom
Sweet and wonderful to say.
On my heartstrings freedom sings
All day everyday.
There are words like Liberty
That almost make me cry.
If you had known what I know
You would know why.

Langston Hughes

#7. Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

Shane Koyczan

#8. Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

Rene Descartes

#9. Besides, he didn't have enough intact heartstrings to hand them to people to pull.

Ali Shaw

#10. Look too on this poor planet of ours,
Torn by the storms of mysterious powers,
Evil contending with good from its birth,
Wrenching in battle the heartstrings of earth,
Ah! what infinities circle us here,
Strangeness and wonderment swathing the sphere!

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#11. Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

#12. Every finish is the start of a new beginning to Run Life's Course.

Temeko Richardson

#13. Open your heart and your mind, be inspired to realize that you are a vital part of the Universe.

Bill Harvey

#14. Certain voices hold this odd pull on our heartstrings. They are like sad oboes or something, something that makes you want to throw all your money at the radio while yelling, "I love you." I don't know what it is.

Jonathan Goldstein

#15. Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.

Ally Condie

#16. It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

Sheila Jackson Lee

#17. For that pony had got tangled up in the cowboy's heartstrings a heap more than that cowboy wanted to let on, even to himself. He couldn't get away from how he missed him.

Will James

#18. The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.

Jean Cocteau

#19. There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

Calvin Coolidge

#20. His kindness tore at her heartstrings...

Milan Kundera

#21. I'm well enough to hold you against my heart," he said. "That's what I've missed the most. Don't you know that?" "Tuscan Tycoon's Wife

Lucy Gordon

#22. Fools are unable to comprehend the wisdom of asking God to manifest His desires into their own hearts. Instead, they ignore the tugs of the Holy Spirit on their heartstrings. They follow after their own yearnings, which only provide temporary pleasure, incomplete joy, and eventual damnation.

Cheryl Zelenka

#23. Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Dennis Gabor

#24. If you don't tell people your plans they can't follow along." "They don't follow along anyway," Tyler said. "Most of them do their level best to piss in your well just to piss in your well.

John Ringo

#25. But how reassuring it was for us, you remember, every now and then ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"), to vibrate to the music of the very heartstrings of the Leader of the Free World who, to qualify convincingly as such, had after all to feel a total commitment to the Free World.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#26. The only way I could get you to say you love me was by telling you to lie to me." He speaks through the bullet hole I shot through his heart. "There's nothing left. I can't pull on your heartstrings when they're no longer attached to anything.

E.K. Blair

#27. Sometimes I think that my whole life is on film, that my whole life is in print. But it's not like that. There are things which are only in my heart-that no one knows. At last I have decided to tell everything." Diego Maradona

Diego Armando Maradona

#28. The great thing about 'Friday Night Lights,' unlike so many other shows and movies, is that it doesn't take the obvious beats to pull your heartstrings or manipulate you.

Scott Porter

#29. I have a special place in my heart for working moms - it's a constant pull on your heartstrings.

Angela Kinsey

#30. When I was in junior high, I would carry around this huge volume of Shakespeare. I just like the romantic vibe. I write about it because I fall in and out of love quite a bit. I was always pulling on my mother's heartstrings to get more love.

Fefe Dobson

#31. When the heartstrings, which contentment has silenced, like a harp laid by, yearn to be plucked and sounded again by some hand, however rough, even if it should break them;

Marcel Proust

#32. Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.

Rudyard Kipling

#33. You tug and strain like a young horse when it's first tied up at the stake, whenever you are tied by your heartstrings.

Sigrid Undset

#34. I believe that thoughts and feelings reside on the same nerve-ending ... they are called heartstrings

Jeremy Aldana

#35. I'd rather waltz than just walk through the forest
The trees keep the tempo and they sway in time
Quartet of crickets chime in for the chorus
If I were to pluck on your heartstrings, would you strum on mine?

Owl City

#36. The Black woman in the South who raises sons, grandsons and nephews had her heartstrings tied to a hanging noose. Any break from routine may herald for them unbearable news.

Maya Angelou

#37. I am writing yesterday as tomorrow, tomorrow as yesterday and today as now.

Kieran Jamie Lee

#38. It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God ...

Edward McKendree Bounds

#39. I want to make a movie that can grab people by the heartstrings.

Steven Seagal