affection quotes

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‚feeling‘ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Speak low, if you speak love.

They do not love that do not show their love.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

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

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

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

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

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

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Love is trembling happiness.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

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

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration – not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

I love Brad in every state.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

All you need is love.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

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’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.