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Quotes About Affection

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.
~ Jon Meacham
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
~ Mercy Otis Warren
That concept is quite universal, looking for love.
~ Charlie Heaton
The greatest love I believe... the greatest love I have is for my children, but I think the greatest love probably universally is a mother's love for a child.
~ Peter Hedges
I thought working in other universes that had a lot of history - and I had personal affection for, like 'Sherlock Holmes' or the 'X-Men' movies - would prepare me for it. But the truth is, there is nothing and has never been anything like 'Star Wars.'
~ Simon Kinberg
I love the University of Florida and never wanted to leave.
~ Will Grier
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
~ Mortimer Adler
Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
On Valentine's Day, millions of men give millions of women flowers, cards and candy as a heartfelt expression of the emotion that also motivates men to observe anniversaries and birthdays-fear.
~ Dave Barry
A women loves you not for the things you do for her, but for the things she does for you.
~ Shepherd Mead
Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
~ Jane Austen
I love, love, love women.
~ Anthony Quinn
Men who love women are loved by women
~ Zan Perrion
And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
I want to be surrounded by women, I want to be snuggled and cuddled and pampered.
~ Jason Mraz
I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.
~ Dan Savage
I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.
~ Fran Lebowitz
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
~ Moliere
I love women more than anything.
~ Vin Diesel
I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.
~ Samuel Johnson
Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.
~ Alicia Machado
A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.
~ Samuel Smiles