S L Heaton Quotes & Sayings

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~ Her Demonic Angel ~ — Felicity Heaton

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world — Mary Heaton Vorse

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden. — Patricia Heaton

It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened their mouths to sing. — Mary Heaton Vorse

English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval. — Mary Heaton Vorse

No one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings. — Mary Heaton Vorse

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls. — Patricia Heaton

I had four C-sections and my stomach looked like the map of the world. My breasts were hanging down to here from breastfeeding those babies, and my nipples were like platters. I wanted to fit into the gowns that I finally got to wear. — Patricia Heaton

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have. — Patricia Heaton

I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage. — Patricia Heaton

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press. — Patricia Heaton

I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable. — Patricia Heaton

Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun. — Patricia Heaton

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. — Mary Heaton Vorse

What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process. — Patricia Heaton

The early feminists were pro-life. And really, abortion is a huge disservice to women, and it hasn't been presented that way. As Feminists for Life-what we're trying to do is support women, and so what we want to do is-reach women on campus-college campuses so that, when they get pregnant, they can find housing. They can find money they need to stay in school. — Patricia Heaton

Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon. — Rose Henniker Heaton

On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life. — Patricia Heaton

Bureaucracies are a strange beast whose only goal is obesity. — Tim Heaton

To living in the South: If you've never had a Porterhouse, everything tastes like baloney. — Tim Heaton

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary. — Patricia Heaton

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter. — Patricia Heaton

My state's constitution seems to contain a provision requiring that once every two years we must pass a bill which dazzles the entire country in its glittering, bejeweled stupidity. Not all of them are bad. I rather like the absurd ones. For instance, it is illegal to go whale hunting in Oklahoma. That law is certainly a nice gesture (whales both sing and have giant brains, putting them one point ahead of many legislators). But humpback poaching has never really been problematic in our part of the country, what with it being landlocked and all. — Andrew Heaton

I'm sort of a slob. — Patricia Heaton

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin. — Mary Heaton Vorse

I'm not unlucky at love, just incredibly lucky with celibacy. — Tim Heaton

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer. — Patricia Heaton

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him. — Patricia Heaton

You cannot be in a close and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ and remain so tormented. — Lisa Heaton

Those in the know ain't telling me or you. — Tim Heaton