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Quotes About Affection

God, my Heavenly Father, does not have any favorite children. He loves every one of us with the same love.
~ Kenneth E. Hagin
You are still in love with her. No. But I think I'm in love a little with the memory of her.
~ Kent Haruf
Parents? affection is best shown by their teaching their children industry and self-denial.
~ Burmese Proverb
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is. LOVE.
~ burroughs william s
Women are more complicated when it comes to their affections: They rarely love simply for what is--but for what might be.
~ bushnell candace
Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.
~ bynner witter
At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his family. Anything and everything else he creates are insubstantial; they are ships given over to the mercy of the winds and tides of prejudice. but the family is an everlasting anchorage, a quiet harbor where a man's ships can be left to swing to the moorings of pride and loyalty.
~ byrd richard evelyn ii
All commands from your lips are sweet, I say, and now have you not said the sweetest of all? Marry you...!
~ Byron Caldwell Smith
When you are not at hand to kiss away my fears I cannot choose but be wretched.
~ Byron Caldwell Smith
All commands from your lips are sweet....
~ Byron Caldwell Smith
[M]y eyes moistened yesterday with your dear, dear letter in my hand. Was it foolish to kiss the senseless paper, to clasp it with the involuntary laugh of uncontrollable emotion? Don't you think one could go mad of pure longing?...
~ Byron Caldwell Smith
...I can forget my very existence in a deep kiss of you.
~ Byron Caldwell Smith
Love is compounded of pleasing palpitations.
~ byron henry james
She talks of love in a most ridiculous way. I say, affection's a swindle altogether! Married folk, 'Neath the yolk. Tug hard at their tether. Love that gallops, drops to hobbling-- Husbands their wive's incomes nobbling, That which boil'd soon sinks to wobbling, Ne'er again to heat. Love no longer husbands blinding, Extra freckles they keep finding; Wrinkles most unkind in, Winding Crow's crowding feet.
~ byron henry james
No matter what has happened. No matter what you've done. No matter what you will do. I will always love you. I swear it.
~ C. J. Redwine
Body, remember not only how much you were loved,not only the beds you lay on,but also those desires glowing openlyin eyes that looked at you,trembling for you in voices.
~ C. P. Cavafy
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
~ C. S. Lewis
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
~ C. S. Lewis
Lamar related the Texas & Pacific bill to the national political crisis by presenting it as a means of "reconciliation" between the sections, "material reconstruction" of the South, and a way of restoring "mutual respect and affection" at a moment when those sentiments were desperately needed.
~ C. Vann Woodward
Why did you blow in his nose like that?" he asked. "Horses in the herd do that to each other to show affection.
~ C.J. Box
She touched her hand to his cheek, and he turned toward her, his arms coming around her to draw her close, his cheek pressed to the side of her hair. She felt his chest lift against hers as he drew in a ragged breath and held her tight. And then he said the words she'd long thought she'd never hear. "God, how I love you, Hero. So much. So much...
~ C.S. Harris
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
~ C.S. Lewis
E me dá uma saudade irracional de você. Uma vontade de chegar perto, de só chegar perto, te olhar sem dizer nada, talvez recitar livros, quem sabe só olhar estrelas… dizer que te considero – pode ser por mais um mês, por mais um ano, ou quem sabe por uma vida – e que hoje, só por hoje ou a partir de hoje (de ontem, de sempre e de nunca), é sincero.
~ Caio Fernando Abreu
Our oldest grandchild has precisely Alice's coloring, which may be one reason I sometimes have trouble taking my eyes off her.
~ Calvin Trillin