Quotes from Anita Bryant

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 guess when there's a real void in your life and your marriage has become rotten, you fantasize a lot of things.

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.

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.

When God calls you to do something, and when it's put upon you in such a way that you're boxed in, it has to be.

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

I never used to charge religious groups.

I didn't quite agree with the Supreme Court ruling that forced civic clubs to take women.

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'd like to live a normal life. I'd like to be able to go out and play some tennis. I'd like to be able to water ski - do a lot of things.

I've held a lot of pity parties for myself. There was a time when I never wanted to face the public again. I never wanted to face the press again. But God gave me healing gifts.

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

If we don't get back to the word of God in this nation, I feel He will judge America just as he did Sodom and Gomorrah. I have a burden on this and I have a great concern to help awaken the American people to what's going on.

At one time, no one would touch me with a 10-foot pole.

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

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.

I don't think of myself as a preacher.

Sexual preference has nothing to do with civil rights.

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.

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

I believe in the right to differ in this country.