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Friday, May 17th, 2024
the Seventh Week after Easter
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Affection'

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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.
Bernadette Peters, American Actress (1948-  )
Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
Pindar, Greek Poet
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Marcel Proust, French Author (1871-1922)
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
Basil Rathbone, English Actor (1892-1967)
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.
Samuel Richardson, English Novelist (1689-1761)
But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.
Eric Roberts, American Actor (1956-  )
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer (1613-1680)
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer (1613-1680)
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President (1882-1945)
Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.
Charles Rosen, American Musician (1927-  )
The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people.
Bob Schaffer, American Politician (1962-  )
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.
Shakira, Musician (1977-  )
I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
Tupac Shakur, American Musician (1971-1996)
It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.
Michael Shanks, Canadian Actor (1970-  )
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist (1856-1950)
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist (1856-1950)
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author (1797-1851)
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.
Agnes Smedley, American Journalist (1892-1950)
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Robert Southey, English Poet (1774-1843)
I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people.
Kenneth Starr, American Lawyer (1946-  )
 
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