Affection Quotes - page 17

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence. (Mercy Otis Warren)
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed. View quote
Norman MacCaig
In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either. View quote
Perry Como
I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great. View quote
Rene Auberjonois
Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with oneself. They represent the profound danger of growing so independent in New York that it's not merely that you don't need anyone - it's that you don't know how to need anyone. View quote
Sloane Crosley
I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But even more than that, I love it when my readers find lasting friendship with others of my readers - knowing that they met through their mutual affection for my books and characters makes me happy! View quote
Suzanne Brockmann
I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters. View quote
Sebastian Pinera
My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense. View quote
Trisha Yearwood
I enjoy receiving love from my wife. I'm ecstatic when Kim loves me and expresses affection toward me. Something in me comes alive when she does that. But I've learned this freeing truth: I don't need that love, because in Jesus, I receive all the love I need. View quote
Tullian Tchividjian
People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection, and they memorized my songs in Spanish. View quote
Thalia
Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not. (Willard Scott)
I have been in love, and it was a great feeling. It's when you are attracted to and feel affection for someone. You want to do things for that person. But only love isn't enough in a relationship - understanding and communication are very important aspects. View quote
Yuvraj Singh
My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love. View quote
Nadya Suleman
An ardent affection for the human race makes enthusiastic characters eager to produce alteration in laws and governments prematurely. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
[Nelson] "... I get none of the things a man's supposed to get from a wife." "What are those?" Janice is truly interested; she has never heard a man spell it out. He makes a cross evasive face. "You know – don't play naïve. Reassurance. Affection. Make the guy think he's great even if he isn't." View quote
John Updike
Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi. View quote
Charles Rosen
Tis in the power of Poetry to insinuate into the inmost Recesses of the Mind, to touch any Spring that moves the Heart, to agitate the Soul with any sort of Affection, and transform it into any Shape or Posture it thinks fit. View quote
Richard Blackmore
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support. View quote
Andrew Jackson
Guys make me feel secure and comfortable when I'm scared or need attention. They bring stability. And affection. And fun. And drama. You learn so much from a boyfriend. It's hard to put into words, I guess. View quote
Hilary Duff
The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. View quote
Jean Piaget
The notion of good, which generally speaking, appears later than the notion of pure duty, particularly in the case of the child, is perhaps the final conscious realization of something that is the primary condition of the moral life - the need for reciprocal affection. (Jean Piaget)
The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it. View quote
Jean Piaget
You have lost a child, a dear, dear child. I have lost the only earthly object of my affection. View quote
James Buchanan
It was the affection of Christ, not the brutality of a town, that healed Zacchaeus. View quote
Don Miller (author)
But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved. View quote
Charlotte Brontë