Affection Quotes

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.

Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially you people in Michigan, you Tiger fans, you've given me so much warmth, so much affection and so much love.

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.