Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brooks Robinson

I really have an affection for York, ... It was the first place where my father came to see me play pro ball.

David Whyte

In the poetic tradition, the heart's affections are indeed holy, and if organizations are asking for people's hearts and minds, they are asking in a way for their holy and hidden affections at the same time.

John Humphrys

In fact nobody has ever complained about the sorts of things I say because it is done with affection and is obviously light-hearted,

William Shea

I'm both gratified and a little surprised at the on-rush of sentiment and affection for him that we've seen. You would suppose that in these circumstances a lot of hyperbole goes on, and I'm just not seeing that. This affection for Tim pre-existed these circumstances.

I may be half the man I used to be. But my heart is still the same and my affection for this community has not died. What kind of world can I create now, what type of person can I become, what type of legacy can I leave now, not what I did before but what can I do now.

Martin Delany

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

In the early stages, it showed affection for the president. But now what you want is somebody with maturity and confidence who doesn't need that kind of assurance.

Dick Cheney

First of all, I have great affection and respect for Halliburton. It's a fine company, and I'm pleased that I was associated with a company and with the men and women of Halliburton, some 83,000 strong around the world, during my tenure there,

Customers have started to develop an affinity for these devices, not only for the utility, but also because they represent a level of status, of personalization and of choice.

Charles Dickens

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

Lewis Thomas

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at.

Bette Midler

I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.

Peter Cushing

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!

Mick Foley

With respect to our audience and our concern over inappropriate material for our WWF viewers, we do, however, ask Mr. Gore to keep his public displays of affection to a minimum.

Amaury Nolasco

These displays of affection mean a lot to our family and are a reminder of the heart that my people have. In this time of grief we ask for a little privacy and space to digest this news; our sister was our sun and we are broken by her departure.

These are two people who feel it's okay to be out in public and showing their affection.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

George Eliot

We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.

Richard Gere

I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That's very rare.

John Lubbock

Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

Diego Forlan

considering that it is impossible to talk about affection and feelings with a heartless man. Maybe drugs have made him so, but now I have had enough of (his) nastiness.

John Caudwell

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

Lyndon Johnson

It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

Thomas Fuller

That trial is not fair where affection is judge

Lord Byron

Alas! our young affections run to waste, / Or water but the desert.

Florence Nightingale

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

Robert Dallek

Reagan restored a sense of hope, a sense of uplift about the presidency. Now it's ironic, because he preached the idea that government was not the solution, government was the problem. And yet, when he left the White House, he had kind of rekindled affection for the presidency.

Princess Margaret had conquered the affection of Italians, who will remember her cordial and human character,

Charles Dickens

Our affections are our consolation and comfort; and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better

Of what good, is a truth that may harm someone and does no good to anyone?Of what bad, is a lie that surely does some good to someone and does no harm to anyone?

affections that here in America would freak people out.

William Shakespeare

Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward,But then woos best when most his choice is froward.

A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts