Fond Quotes - page 14

'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that. (Sam Neill)
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
I've always been fond of acoustic music. View quote
Ian Anderson (musician)
The gods too are fond of a joke. View quote
Edward Albee
I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity. View quote
Erykah Badu
On these occasions I consider how mankind may be connected like one great family in fraternal ties-I endulge a fond, perhaps an enthusiastic idea, that as the world is evidently much less barbarous than it has been, its melioration must still be progressive-that nations are becoming more humanized in their policy-that the subjects of ambition & causes for hostility are daily diminishing-and in fine, that the period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal & free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations & horrors of war. View quote
George Washington
Growing up in such a stunning landscape is inevitably going to have an effect on you, whether you rebel or whether you embrace, because it's so striking. I lived on this rugged, rugged coastline with the North Sea hammering at the cliffs, and the weather changes literally every half hour. My parents met as rock climbers, so they're absolute outdoors fiends, and we were constantly up hills and under canvas and camping and tramping around. They're very fond memories and something I still love to do. View quote
KT Tunstall
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder. View quote
Hermann Hesse
I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Pedants and snobs are fond of declaring that only accomplished French speakers can catch Proust's tone. That might be so, but the tone is only one of the things to be caught. View quote
Clive James
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. (Oscar Wilde)
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. View quote
Oscar Wilde
In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past. View quote
Don DeLillo
We are too fond of seeing the ancients as one thing and the moderns as another. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
If a person would understand either the Odyssey or any other ancient work, he must never look at the dead without seeing the living in them, nor at the living without thinking of the dead. We are too fond of seeing the ancients as one thing and the moderns as another. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
As we get older, we tend to grow quite fond of the planets of belief we have constructed for ourselves. We build elaborate defense mechanisms to ward off attacks from competing ideas or new data. The system makes us comfortable but resistant to change, no matter how much change might be called for. View quote
Sean M. Carroll
My style too reflects the man, for I know myself to be earnest, solemn, fond of courtly gestures, and given to communicating more perhaps than others realy want to know; al these traits I find in my own prose. It has its faults, yet am I pleased with it: I have my faults, yet am I pleased with me. View quote
Robert Silverberg
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. View quote
Thomas Moore
A youth would marry a maiden, For fair and fond was she; But their sires disputed about the Mass, And so it might not be. View quote
John Godfrey Saxe
So sings the world's fond slave! so flies the dream Of life's gay morn; so sinks the meteor ray Of fancy into darkness; and no beam Of purer light shines on the wanderer's way. View quote
Francis Scott Key
What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us. (John Gay)
It takes more than an invading army or crusaders or a demolition squad with sledge-hammers to establish the domain of Truth... Similarly, it is not that easy to get over ‘falsehood'... True spiritual demolition involves the demolition of desire-gods and ego-gods, the demolition of the false gods that reside in conceited theologies, in pretentious revelations and fond belief... View quote
Ram Swarup
I have always been fond of the West African proverb "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
For so extravagant was the affection of that fond parent, that, provided his child would but consent to be miserable with the husband he chose, he cared not at what price he purchased him. View quote
Henry Fielding
Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him. View quote
Daisy Ashford