Quotes About Attachment

Craig is not yours that you should demand to keep him. He doesn't belong to you, Susan. He is mine.

I don't believe in being emotionally detached from patients. I work with and operate on human beings, all creatures of God, people in pain who need help. I don't know how I can work on a girl's brain--how I can have her life in my hands--and yet not become involved. I feel particularly strong attachments to children who seem so defenseless and who haven't yet had the chance to live a full life.

What binds a man to his land? What power within allows him to give his life to preserve his land and the lives of the families who work it? It can only be love.

I'm like mistletoe," she said, "I need a branch to grow on. Without the branch, I'm nothing.

Mourning died slowly. It never fully dies for something truly loved.

Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for a walk, the cat you play with and that curls up in your lap, purring, to be stroked - you can be fond of them, you can even need them to a certain extent, and nonetheless the whole thing - buying pet food, cleaning up the cat box, and trips to the vet - is really too much. Your life is elsewhere.

But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Love of England is very nearly the strongest emotion that I possess.

There is, I think, in either a man or a woman a tendency to feel affection for any child whom he or she has to tend. Even if nothing but custom and convention, or wages, have in the first instance caused an adult to have the care of a child, the mere fact of having that care will, in the majority of cases, cause affection to grow up.

I knew too little of Africa to leave it, and what I knew I loved too much.

if I were, even now, without either a dog or a horse in my keeping, I should feel I had lost contact with the earth.

The downside of human closeness is that, to the degree you have loved their presence, you grieve their loss. Amanda

In fact, during the postpartum period, many mothers don't feel attached towards her new born. So during such times they are quite sensitive and require special care. Still there are people who don't think twice before making hurtful comments about how a mother looks. I fail to understand what satisfaction they get out of body shaming others.

It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks.

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

Males raised and nurtured on mama's 'love' resent the need that they have for women.

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things, and then they'd get sick, and people die, and then they have their basements full of stuff that goes from one box to the next, so I try not to get sentimental with stuff. I just try to collect memories; I guess that would be it.

I love to watch 'Hoarders.' My grandmother was a hoarder. My mother's on her way. I'm an electronics hoarder - I won't throw any out. I still have my first T-Mobile Sidekick... old VCRs in my garage. It scares me that I'm going to end up being buried under electronics.

It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.

As a kid, I wore the same Oakland A's hat for like six or seven years. It was faded white and green. It was because I loved Barry Zito and he had signed that hat.

It's silly, but 'You Really Got a Hold on Me' has been a favorite song of mine for a long time.

I love my silver payals which I've been wearing for years now.