Jo Ann Quotes & Sayings

Respect your women's intuition (spirit), it never lies — Jo Ann Mason

Healing begins at truth-telling. Tame your emotions and focus on what matters. — Jo Ann Fore

His face searching the bus windows looked expectant, impatient, and a little anxious. It was a husband's face. Familiar, known, increasing beloved. Mary Ann, I reflected, had an awful lot to learn. And actually, I reflected, I wouldn't be in her shoes right now for all the flowers in Bermuda ... having it all to learn again.
— Ann Head

Those thin places where truth seeps through, those are the places where Jesus walks
the places we find healing. — Jo Ann Fore

I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism, because it teaches you, it informs you, and it changes your writing. — Jo-Ann Mapson

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves. — Jo Ann Davis

Positive stress, negative stress, - stress no less. It's all in how you manage your energies. — Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

Oh, Mama," I said. "What if I don't live that long?" My mother didn't hesitate one second. "By hook or by crook, you will. Having children only increases your grip on the world. It's like reading a thriller. You can't put it down because you have to know how the story turns out. — Jo-Ann Mapson

With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren wasteland. — Jo Ann V. Glim

It is your personal story that makes you relatable. Not assigning judgment, or pressing blame. Your story, wrapped in God, around his Word, and what he has done in your life will safely lead women home. — Jo Ann Fore

As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly. — Jo Ann Davis

You aren't alone. Unworthy. Powerless. You are important in God's eyes. You aren't defined by what has happened to you, or even your own wrong choices; these things will not destroy you. You are loved. Needed. And what you have to say is valuable. — Jo Ann Fore

It is the Master of Self who is the masterpiece; the life lived is the canvas that reveals the Master's great works. — Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

We have the best congressmen that money can buy. — Jo Ann Dearing

Celebrate the amazing person you are and experience the most thrilling journey of a lifetime. — Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

Every breath a blessing... Every day a gift! — Jo Ann V. Glim

On the very tip of his tongue is his Firerancher. Thin as tissue paper, it looks like the moon in the daytime sky. Suddenly love is looming over the car, as big and invisible as the ghost mountains of the Comobabi range. I smile at him and turn up the radio with my toes. — Jo Ann Beard

Within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant. — Jo Ann Beard

Choose to live with honor and integrity; In all that you do, be an honest and trustworthy person; Use your talents to serve others and your country; Protect and nurture life ... it's the most precious gift we have; Develop a personal relationship with God. Life is filled with challenges. Face them with courage and faith. It's where wisdom and strength dwell. If you live by these standards, you will never be poor. Your life will be filled with wealth and your heart will truly know peace. Out of all these choices, the greatest choice we make is to hate or to love ... Choose Love. — Jo Ann V. Glim

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil. — Jo Ann Emerson

A joyful life is when we listen to the desires of our heart and mind, and we never forget to have a chuckle or two, a day. — Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade. — Jo Ann Emerson

Your beliefs determine your thoughts, behaviours, and actions; they in turn determine your outcomes. — Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

You are part of the fabric of your personal and professional community, country, and world. When you actualize your potentials in your own unique way, our world actualizes its potential, too. — Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

We sit silently in our living room. He watches the mute television screen and I watch him. The planes and ridges of his face are more familiar to me than my own. I understand that he wishes even more than I do that he still loved me. — Jo Ann Beard

Selah Moments: those times we lean into God's presence, hear His voice, and willingly receive the golden nuggets of truth-revelation He gifts us with. — Jo Ann Fore

A man must walk only his own path ... Never another's or his feet will grow tired and sore. And he will feel lost even when he arrives. — Jo Ann Davis

Heather Lende's small town is populated with big hearts
she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary peoples' lives, and knits them into unforgettable tales. Find the Good is a treasure. — Jo-Ann Mapson

For the soul-wounded woman. Your healed voice is my favorite sound. Your hurts, they walk right into our hearts; but your story of healing
that can change lives. Never be afraid to find and use your voice. — Jo Ann Fore

In addition to Linda and me, there's a brother, a strange little guy named Bradley, obsessed with his own cowboy boots. He paces areound and around the house, staring at his feet and humming the G. I. Joe song from the television commmercial. He is the ringleader of a neighborhood gang of tiny boys, four-year olds, who throw dirt and beat each other with sticks all day long. In the evenings he comes to dinner with an imaginnary friend named Charcoal.
'Charcoal really needs a bath', my mother says, spooning Spaghettios onto his plate. His hands are perfectly clean right up to the wrists and the center of his face is cleared so we can see what he looks like. The rest of him is dirt. — Jo Ann Beard

Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!' — Jo Ann Davis

It wasn't an accident. — Jo Ann Yhard

America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China. — Jo Ann Emerson

Why do we insist on perpetuating estereotypes that will affect each and every one of us someday? — Jo Ann Jenkins

Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn — Jo Ann Butler

The way everything seems to be working out right now, I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up dead before the night is over. — Jo Ann Beard

That story you're scared to share
that story has the power to change both your life and the lives of others. — Jo Ann Fore

America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner. — Jo Ann Emerson

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world. — Jo Ann Emerson

True emotional healing lies somewhere between intentional choices and divine intervention, a junction of surrender, faith, trust, and action. — Jo Ann Fore

As she lies in the bed she weeps, for Bing, for the melting, shimmering candles, the filigree on the holiday tablecloth. She is an unwilling astronaut, bumping against the thick glass of the ship, her line tangling lazily in zero gravity, face mask fogged with fear. My sister reaches across, over the bed, and we both embrace the mother, holding her on earth, pulling her onto the ship, breathing our oxygen into her line. Ten hours later she is dead. — Jo Ann Beard

The painful after effects of emotional wounds permeate our souls, negatively impacting the choices we make and the way we live. The longer we push aside these wounds, the greater the chance they will become contaminated. Infected. These wounds then weep, leaking and spreading into other areas, requiring additional care and taking much longer to heal. Gone unchecked, these infections often become much worse than the original wound. — Jo Ann Fore

As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly. — Jo Ann Davis

Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine. — Jo-Ann Mapson

Kintsugi is based on the belief that something broken is stronger and more beautiful because of its imperfections, the history attached to it, and its altered state. Instead of hiding what's been damaged, the shards are mended with a special resin mixed with gold dust. The bonded seams become an intrinsic part of the ceramic and add a personalized, one-of-a-kind beauty through its imperfections. — Jo Ann V. Glim

Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect. — Jo Ann Davis

There are those times we are afraid of the dark, but our fears don't mean there is actually danger. God is in the darkness with us, and He can see. His very presence illuminates the dark, driving it out. — Jo Ann Fore

There's an undeniable healing power in telling the truth to someone who validates you by simply listening ... honor washes away the stench of shame. — Jo Ann Fore

They are usually multi-talented, with dozens of ideas streaming across the "high-def" screen of their minds in a moving sort of neon, pulsating display of enticing, seemingly impractical options for making contributions to humanity. Creative — Jo Ann Brown-Scott

A forced silence is a dangerous imposter, painting a canvas of safety while plotting our demise. — Jo Ann Fore

Glory sipped her second glass of red wine, impatient for the slight buzz that made her edges blur. — Jo-Ann Mapson

The essences of all religions speak of peace, compassion, justice and the interconnection of all life. — Jo Ann Emerson

A willingness to lose one's self in a story was the first step to learning compassion, to appreciating other cultures, to realizing what possibilities the world held for people who kept at life despite the odds. — Jo-Ann Mapson

Poverty is a condition that resides in the heart ... not in the wallet. — Jo Ann V. Glim

The first step toward freedom is to choose truth. — Jo Ann Fore

If we counted wrinkles as we do pages in a book, some of us are fast approaching "epic" status! — Jo Ann V. Glim

The power in each individual comes from all of us, and the power of all of us comes from each individual. — Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red. — Jo Ann Emerson

In the telling, we become what God created us to be
women of freedom, of hope, pointing others to him. — Jo Ann Fore

Sometimes when you're cruel to others, it's because you've gotten yourself into a situation you can't get out of. — Jo Ann Beard

Those things we stuff, try so hard to ignore, they are the very things begging for release
the things that hold the promise of hope, the flame of freedom. — Jo Ann Fore

There is a powerful shifting that takes place as we abandon the right to understand and yield to God's working in our lives. — Jo Ann Fore

The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price. — Jo Ann Davis

As you travel the road of life, your self-concept is the pedal that controls your speed. — Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

The truth of God's Word cuts through the good and bad of our lives like a trowel digging up hard-to-remove weeds without damaging the plant. — Jo Ann Fore

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it. — Jo-Ann Mapson

China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population. — Jo Ann Emerson

This is where the pivotal events of my childhood unfolded, while I ate banana and root beer Popsicles, two by two, tucking the sticks neatly under the skirt of the chair. It's where Sunnybank Lad met Lady, Ken met his friend Flicka, Atlanta burned, Manderley burned, Lassie came home, Jim ran away, Alice got small, Wilbur got big, David Copperfield was born, Beth died, and, on an endless gloomy winter afternoon, Jody shot his yearling. — Jo Ann Beard

I've been a good teacher for eleven years, and then they come up with this mandated testing crap? With the state pushing for performance, the Board of Ed would have been all over me once those test results came in! Me? Like it's my fault these kids can't pass a test? — Jo-Ann Lamon Reccoppa

We intend to hide our shortcomings, and the fear inside our hearts, but instead, we hide our beauty, our true selves. — Jo Ann Fore

Highway One, Antarctica is a wonderful debut by a writer with razor-sharp insights to the human condition. Justin Herrmann is a voice I hope to hear more from, and soon. Excellent collection. — Jo-Ann Mapson

When she learned how much God loved her, how much he valued her, the soul-corroding shame lost its power. — Jo Ann Fore

When we share those stories we've been scared to share, voicelessness loses it's wicked grasp. — Jo Ann Fore

Sometimes a stronger, more realistic faith is birthed in the darkest of pits. — Jo Ann Fore

Because no matter how much we think otherwise, there are those ugly things that hold the greatest potential for beauty. — Jo Ann Fore

A personal journey is part of the generational relay. Live your legacy then pass it on. — Jo Ann V. Glim

There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them. It's always these ordinary women and men of grace who have been waiting and seething and planning to change things that are unjust that bring movement. — Marian Wright Edelman

The barking hounds ran in and out of the creek, making slapping waves, turning the Georgia earth to mud under the longleaf pines. With the dogs at play, they were, for a lovely short time, naive boys on a glorious summer's day, lost in clamorous youth. — Jo-Ann Costa

It feels weird right at this moment to not be anybody's sidekick. Hard to explain, but when I look at the moon, it seems like it's paying attention to me, instead of me paying attention to it. It's way up there now. Hi, moon, I say silently to it. Yes, I'm high, it says back. The moon has a sense of humor. — Jo Ann Beard

Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere. — Jo Ann Davis

Instead of slapping her head, I do what they tell you to do: count to ten. Only I do it the gifted way: 123+456+789+10. When your sister has hurtled you swerving into the darkness, stranded you at a funeral home, and threatens to get you in trouble, just stop and count to 1,378 before you respond. — Jo Ann Beard

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that. — Jo Ann Emerson

In the dresser mirror, my face looks the same, but I feel something happening around me, some change as palpable as weather. Stuck in the mirror are mementos from my childhood - red and yellow ribbons for various underachievements, a brown corsage from grad school graduation, a curling and faded picture of me petting a deer in Wisconsin - which is now over. I wandered through it and came out the other side.

It's a stark feeling. Like getting to the last page of a book and seeing 'The End.' Even if you didn't like the story that much, or your childhood, you read it, you lived it. And now it's over, book closed, that long-ago deer you petted in the Dells as dead as the one in The Yearling. — Jo Ann Beard

It's my belief that animals can help a human being travel to the wounds of childhood. The best part is, once you go there, you can fix things. Get on with life. — Jo-Ann Mapson

Son, make this world a better place with that beautiful mind of yours. And when you have a family of your own, love them beyond measure even when it means letting them be free to do what God intends them to do. — Jo Ann V. Glim

The first step towards freedom is to choose truth. — Jo Ann Fore

Silence, shame, guilt, or any other emotional torment simply cannot rob us of God's love, of his plan for us. — Jo Ann Fore

I want to be that woman . . . the one who, yes, may have been hurt, but because You {God} reworked her heart she stands whole. Emotionally whole. Free. — Jo Ann Fore

Juniper laughed for real, but one of those fake smiles he considered a plague of the Caucasian race followed. If you're sad, be sad, he wanted to say. — Jo-Ann Mapson

Good thing we weren't here when this happened," Fred added. "We'd be pancakes - DEAD ones! — Jo Ann Yhard

Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either. — Jayne Ann Krentz