Affection Quotes

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.

Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking, 'I'm not worthy,' because 'Star Wars' is so much bigger than all of us.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel.

You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.

When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.

While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

There's something about the fashion world that I like, which is, I see a lot of the designers really have affection for other designers.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!