Quotes About Attachment

I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.

I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.

When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

perché chi è cresciuto qui, per quanto possa sembrare impossibile a chi vi ha passato pochi giorni con gli occhi lacrimosi e la gola bruciante, ama il suo De-Efe di un amore viscerale ed appassionato...

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

I love you like crazy, baby 'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

In whatsoever countrey men are bred (I know not by what sweetnesse of it led), They nourish in their minds a glad desire, Unto their native homes for to retire

You want to know where your fears are hiding? Tell me what you know about yourself. Tell me what you can't live without.

There is little more likely to exasperate a person of sense than finding herself tied by affection and habit to an enthusiast.

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

If you're ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.

JEAN I need him like the axe needs the turkey. HARRINGTON Don't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common.

The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.

She's always in my hair

Kärleken är ett helhetskrav, vare sig den är smärtsam oro eller lycklig åtrå... Man älskar bara det man inte äger helt.

Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.

I don't want to interfere with my children's lives any more than you do, but I want them to be happy. Must growing up always mean a breaking up?" she asked sadly. "No, but it often means a breaking away," the captain said. "And you wouldn't want them to stay anchored for the rest of their existence, growing barnacles all over them and rotting away with rust.

I love the idea of homeland, but not the actual return to one.

I am my family's appendix, its unnecessary appendage.

I'll admit that I'm not fond of children. They stick to you like burrs, and tearing them off is cumbersome. I don't dislike them. I simply prefer them not to be around.