“The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . .” HeartStillsMotherMemoriesChildhoodMy HeartProfoundGentleClosestReading Aloud Author:Margaret Sanger
“The issues facing working women and their families are closest to my heart. I decided to focus intently on the challenges military wives face because they juggle the same pressures as their nonmilitary peers, all while coping as single parents while their loved ones are overseas. I wanted to help make their voices heard.” HeartHelpingWantedFacesParentVoiceChallengesIssuesFocusWifeHeardMilitaryMy HeartDecidedPressureLoved OnesClosestPeersCopingSingle ParentWorking Women Author:Michelle Obama
“Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.” HeartCountryBigsSpeakMy OwnInfluenceMy HeartSongwritingClosest Author:Teddy Thompson
“The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.” WayHeartChildrenHelpingMy HeartInvolvedCharityClosestHelping Children Author:Oscar de la Renta
“Many celebrations are set to take place in Swarnim Gujarat. However, if one asks me, "As the Chief Minister, which is your favourite programme?" Then friends, I would like to say that 'Vanche Gujarat' is the closest to my heart.” IfsHeartAsksMy HeartEmpowermentIndiaChiefsAsk MeMinistersCelebrationFavouriteClosestProgrammesGujarat Author:Narendra Modi
“The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can't own.” HeartI CanMy HeartClosest Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“For me 'Submarine', is probably one of the most important things I've done and it will always remain the closest thing to my heart. It was an amazing experience and it really changed things for me after I'd finished filming it because of the people on it.” PeopleHeartImportantDoneChangedMy HeartImportant ThingsFinishedClosestSubmarinesAmazing Experiences Author:Yasmin Paige
“I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.” HeartProcessCreativeMy HeartCreatingCreative ProcessClosestCreating Something Author:Amy Lee
“'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American life, and to my own particular child - and girlhood in upstate New York. Everyone in the novel is enormously close to me, including Marianne's cat, Muffin, who was in fact my own cat.” ThinkingWayHeartChildrenFactsMy OwnNovelNew YorkParticularMy HeartCatIncludingPassingPassingsClosestValentineAmerican LifeGirlhoodMuffinsUpstate New York Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.” HeartFactsAbleValuesCommunitySourceMy HeartClosestSource Of Happiness Author:Salman Rushdie
“The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . . Memories of mother drying my tears, reading aloud, cutting cookies and singing as she did, listening to prayers I said as I knelt with my forehead pressed against her knee, tucking me in bed and turning down the light. They have carried me through the years and given my life such a firm foundation that it does not rock beneath flood or tempest.” YearsHeartDoeSaidStillsLightMotherReadingGivenMemoriesPrayerCuttingChildhoodRocksTearsListeningMomMy HeartBedSingingFoundationProfoundFirmGentleKneesClosestFloodCookiesForeheadsTempestThrough The YearsReading AloudFirm Foundation Author:Margaret Sanger