Anita Bryant

Yes, I love to cook. I'm what you'd call an old-fashioned cook.

I think the opportunites are unlimited. It just depends on how hard I have to work.

I never used to charge religious groups.

I thank God there are a few men left in this nation who have the backbone to tell it like it is.

I don't care who you are, if you don't stand opposed to immoral issues, then you will suffer.

The more I get persecuted, the more people knock on my door in support.

It's easy to be bitter. I'm human in that respect.

For too long, the family-loving grassroots American public has sat back and watched ultra-liberal and militant radical groups cast fear into the hearts of our communications industries.

I don't feel God can truly bless America again until we start praising him in our schools.

I don't hate homosexuals. I love them enough to tell them the truth: that God puts them in the category with other sinners.

I tell people that If one woman can get prayer taken out of the school, it may very well be that God Is asking another woman to get prayer back into the schools. I am confident that's what God wants us to do.

Any time you water down the law, it just makes it easier for immorality to be tolerated.

If you're looking for a wonderful way to spend time, take up fishing.

I think there is something special about living in a small town. Everyone knows your business and there is an intimacy you don't get in a large town.

As children, we dug for worms or we used crawdads for bait. We caught catfish, or crappies, a delicous fish.

Back in Oklahoma, we always spent our vacations fishing. The kids slept in the cars while the grownups slept on the riverbank.

We don't lead a social lite and when we get vacation time we spend il at home.

I've about given up on the fundamentalists, who have become so legalistic and letter-bound to the Bible.

I believe in the long run, God will vindicate me.

The church needs to wake up and find some way to cope with divorce and women's problems that are based on Biblical principles.

I cannot change the fact that divorce is wrong. It's never right. But we are all human, we are all part of a fallen world.

Twice a year we film the orange juice commercials and at home in our daily life I try to involve the children as much as possible even in preparing meals.

I don't know what I'd do without my little black notebook.

In this business I meet so many people. They are all trying to be healthy, but without an inner source they fail. They are not happy with themselves.

The Lord Jesus is my Vitamin C.

I am creating a better atmosphere for our children and other children.

The family in this country is being torn apart. With each member doing his own thing, doing it if it feels good and whatever, the family has gradually deteriorated. And the family is the basic unit of this nation. When the family is gone, so will be the country.

I've had offers for Broadway and Hollywood musicals, but I do not want to take just any musical. I want the musical that's right for me when I'm right for it.

When you get to the age of accountability you have to reaffirm your faith.

Nothing can compare to the joy of leading a friend to Christ.

I'm getting very lazy now that we have a family.

People that come to the fair have a certain freedom you don't find in the nightclubs. They come to have a good time.

In fact, it was my singing that helped me place so high in the Miss America contest. If it just depended on beauty and figure, I wouldn't have done so well.

I was singing from the time I was 6 years old - at banquets and school shows back in Oklahoma.

Homosexuality is an abomination to the Lord.

I use my 'woman-ness' all the time, and it's not illegal.

I would give my life if necessary to protect my children. I'm concerned with giving them the right food and clothes to wear... If they're exposed to homosexuality I might as well feed them garbage.

Some males who want to become teachers even want to wear dresses to work and flaunt their homosexuality in front of my children.

I dont feel qualified or that I really have time to be involved with the Southern Baptist Convention.

I don't have a cause - I am being obedient to God.

If you operate in fear, it can just wipe you out.

You can take God's viewpoint and call sin sin and still love the sinner.

I had worked with homosexuals all my life and I always had a policy of live and let live.

Even if you're right you have to forgive. It's a principle that works, whether you believe in God or not.

That TV set in your home has the power to destroy your family.

I am seeking the will of God, living one day at a time.

I came from a broken home and have been so concerned about my own family that divorce has not even been in my vocabulary. It's against everything I ever believed in.

I find that wherever I go, people are hungering to get back to basics.

As the world is waxing worse, people are turning back to the basics of God.

I lost everything.