Affection Quotes

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.

Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here.

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

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.

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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