Amy Grant Quotes (60 Quotes)

AIM has been important to Nancy for a long time. Nancy has been asked to do a lot of charity things, and I thought, 'If this has captured her heart for 25 years, that is pretty important.' Any time you can bring people together, especially in the life of a child, everybody is richer for it.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

The music industry has changed so much. Musically, I don't really know what it is I'm trying to do.

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

One of the great things about being older is you can be a sounding board, a good listener. But to be honest, I'd just as soon look down a loaded shotgun barrel than snap my fingers and suddenly be 94 today Growing old isn't for the the weak at heart. The hardest thing would be to see your body backfire. And the whole wrinkle thing is really odd.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

I knew that whoever wound up hosting the show was going to have a front-row seat to some pretty amazing interaction with some very deserving people.

I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.

This beautiful Florida sky, palm trees, green grass and all of this love and happy faces, we have so much to be grateful for, I Will Remember You.

was going to have a front-row seat to some pretty amazing interaction with some very deserving people. I'm so glad my name was thrown into the pot, and I look forward to working with NBC ... and executive producer Andrew Glassman -- and I hope that together we are able to make a lot of dreams come true.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

The hard times are several years behind me now. This is probably the most peaceful stretch of life I've known as an adult.

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?

To be invited into these powerful situations is life-changing. I don't know what I expected to happen on this show, but the lessons we are learning as we help these people have just surpassed anything I could have imagined.

I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life.

But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.

Music took a bunch of average-Joe Christians who could play electric guitar and sing and threw them into the limelight. But we were not a bunch of Billy Grahams.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

The greatest part of this, I just keep experiencing over and over again are people coming together and talking about things that really matter to them. The act of talking about something that matters is empowering all by itself, even if the wish isn't picked.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

I don't think it's about the hype, I think it's about the possibility of people saying, 'You mean there is really a possibility that my wish could be chosen'

That has been said, especially by younger artists. But life just happens, and one step leads to the next, ... A lot of people were already working really hard doing what I was doing before I came along.

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.

My energy was focused on trying to find my way out of a deep, dark wood, and getting good help that I trusted, and being involved with the people I was responsible for and responsible to. Beyond that extended familyfriendschurch base, there was no energy to consider who was putting the ban on me. If somebody made that choice, I totally respect that. But I had no interest in trying to justify anything to anybody.

Hey, I've got a confession to make. I don't know if you read your mail, but I wrote you a love letter when I was 8.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.

If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.

Looking at little Conner take those steps across the stage, and I thought everyone of us knows the feeling of facing something that just seems insurmountable. Sometimes it just takes a little time.

I choose to live in Nashville because my whole family is there. I couldn't re-engage with the ever-changing face of the company, so I'm not begrudging any of that. As the music business continues to change, I don't know if it would ever make sense to sign with two majors. Record companies just have to reinvent the wheel as they go.

We did a show in San Antonio that was really amazing. The military helped us do a satellite to Baghdad where during intermission we had eight families seated in the front row and one by one they were able to communicate with their loved ones using the cameras to see each other. It was so emotional and nobody moved even though it was the intermission.

The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.