Heart Strings Quotes

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

  Dennis Gabor

  Heart, Poetry, Poetic

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• 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

  Love You, Yelling, Voice

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

  Angela Kinsey

  Mom, Heart, Special

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• 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

  Weather, Hollywood, England

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• Until there was you, I wandered aimlessly. For a long time, like a little child, I will cry in anticipation of you.

  Ko Joon-hee

  Children, Drama, Long

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• they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

  George Orwell

  Heart, Years, Tears

  George Orwell, Duncan Macmillan, Robert Icke (2013). “1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)”, p.45, Oberon Books

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• Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings

  Isaac Watts

  Heart, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.246

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• Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

  Mark Carwardine

  Heart, Imagination, Mind

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• There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here before," we think to ourselves, "and this is one of my true homes." It is no mystery for those philosophers who hold that all which we shall see, with all which we have seen and are seeing, exists already in an eternal now; that all those places are home to us which in the pattern of our life are twisting, in past, present and future, tendrils of remembrance round our heart-strings.

  E. C. Bentley

  Heart, Home, Past

  "Trent's Own Case". Book by E. C. Bentley and H. Warner Allen, Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It", 1936.

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• I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty.

  Mike Colter

  Jobs, Home, Heart

  "Mike Colter: On Meditation, Good Writing, and Passion Projects". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The most incredible thing about playing the songs live for people - looking out to the crowd and seeing the different reactions and the different heart-strings and the things that people are relating to that mean something to them, that's crazy.

  Hayley Williams

  Song, Crazy, Heart

  "Interview: Paramore's Hayley Williams On Their Self-Titled Album + 2014 New Zealand Tour!". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. September 4, 2013.

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• You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God, and (said he) God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings, and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial Kingdom of God.

  John Taylor

  Heart, Men, Inheritance

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• They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

  John Ford

  Grief, Heart, Cutting

  John Ford, Terence John Bew Spencer (1980). “The Broken Heart”, p.34, Manchester University Press

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• There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

  Lucy Larcom

  Heart, Born, Strings

  Lucy Larcom (1889). “A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory”

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• Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance
  With the stars up above in your eyes...
  And I'm trying to please to the calling
  Of your heart-strings that they play soft and low
  And all the night's magic seems to whisper and hush
  And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush...
  One more Moondance with you in the moonlight
  On a magic night

  Van Morrison

  Stars, Eye, Heart

  Van Morrison (2016). “Toma interior”, p.82, Malpaso Ediciones SL

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• It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Father, Heart, Purses

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• I'm not the only kid who grew up this way, surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones, as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called, and we got called them all. So we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us, that we'd be lonely forever, that we'd never meet someone to make us feel like the sun was something they built for us in their toolshed. So broken heartstrings bled the blues, and we tried to empty ourselves so we'd feel nothing. Don't tell me that hurts less than a broken bone...

  Shane Koyczan

  Lonely, Hurt, Falling In Love

  "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• Up and away for life! be fleet!-
  The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
  Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
  Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
  Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
  And hems in life with narrowing fence.
  Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,-
  The punctual stars will vigil keep,-
  Embalmed by purifying cold;
  The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
  The snow is no ignoble shroud,
  The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Kings, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

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• Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Sadness, Ties

  George Eliot (1859). “Adam Bede”, p.34, London

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• Stand Fast Through the Storms of Life. "You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God... God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial kingdom of God" -John Taylor recalls the words of Joseph Smith to the Twelve. JS manual page 231

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Men, Storm

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• We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff and still! That I could speak,—and you perforce be dumb! I think our heart-strings were, like warp and woof In some firm fabric, woven in and out; Your golden filaments in fair design Across my duller fibre.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2007). “The Collected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.25, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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  Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

  Macklemore

  Moving, Heart, Medicine

  Interview with Erica Rivera, www.ericarivera.net. December 10, 2011.

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