Affection Quotes

Most people would rather give than get affection.

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

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.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

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

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

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

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

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.

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

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

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

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.

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.