Joanna Gaines Quotes

On this particular afternoon, they all started teasing me. You should go out to the lobby, Jo. There’s a hot guy out there. Go talk to him! they said.No, I said. Stop it! I’m not doing that.I was all...

Lap? Chip laughed. That seems a little ironic to use on a , doesn’t it?Ha-ha, I replied. I was still not in the mood for his jokes, but this is how Chip backs me off the ledge--with his humor.

Whether you are in an eight-hundred-square-foot home or living in a dream house on a lake, contentment is found on the way.

One thing I learned there on that beautiful front porch was if I wanted to be successful, if I wanted to do important work one day, I would have to increase my capacity. I had to learn to manage disap...

By the time Chip and I met, he’d managed to combine these two conflicting sides of himself: the kid who steered clear of trouble and did the right thing, and the kid who rode his Big Wheel full speed...

I think it’s important to reiterate here that I didn’t start out wanting to be a gardener, or a designer for that matter. It was trial and error and figuring things out. And sometimes you’ve got to t...

It’s hard to describe the feeling that comes with starting your own business. It really is so much work in the beginning that you lose yourself in it. You lose your sense of time, and you can’t believ...

We’d be walking downtown, and I’d hear, Chip. Hey, Chip! and I’d turn to see a person approaching us who, frankly, might have scared me if I was walking downtown by myself. Chip wouldn’t be scared. He...

That’s our new home! Chip said, beaming with pride at his purchase.What? You are crazy. We are not living on a houseboat.It quickly dawned on me that this wasn’t a joke and Chip wasn’t even close to k...

I have to choose to thrive, even in the pain. Even when it's tough. ... We can do this. God has not brought us this far to let us down now.

Filling a room with the things you think you should because you’ve seen someone else do it that way or because you just want it to feel finished will never yield a home you truly love. You can make a...

We didn’t know what made great TV. We were just trying to make a living and trying hard to honor the craft we had both fallen in love with over the years.

Well, I'm mad, but I'm not primer-in-the-face mad.

So from the age of five to about twenty, religion to me was a matter of 'you do this, and you don’t do that, and you do your best to walk the straight line.

Best of all, as happy as Chip Gaines was, he seemed happiest around me.I’m a generally happy person. My mom says I was a happy baby. But it’s a fact--I was always happiest around Jo. And I still am.

When I finally calmed down, I saw how disappointed he was and how bad he felt. I decided to take a deep breath and try to think this thing through.Maybe it’s not that bad, I said. (I think I was tryin...

It was awful. It was three in the morning. And I finally said, Chip, I’m not sleeping in this house.We were broke. We couldn’t go to a hotel. There was no way we were gonna go knock on one of our pare...

She cried. Again. That was sort of her thing during year one. If we ever write a marriage book, chapter 1 will be called, She cried.

Then one day Chip showed up with the back of his pickup truck just loaded with old metal letters he’d found at a flea market--big, oddly shaped letters taken from various old signs. They were mismatch...

Sometimes second chances lead to great things.All of my doubts, all of the things I thought I wanted out of a relationship, and many of the things I thought I wanted out of life itself turned out to b...