Quotes About Sentimental

I suppose it's a sentimental thing, but I wouldn't want to do more 'Lewis' than we did 'Morse' because I do still think of it as an offshoot.

I am surprisingly very sensitive.

He's on a bus to Las Vegas. He has a friend there who will give him a job. She brightened up very suddenly. Oh- to Las Vegas? How sentimental of him. That's where we were married. I guess he forgot, I said, or he would have gone somewhere else.

He loved his mother: doesn't that warm your silly, sentimental, twentieth-century heart? He loved his father. He loved his sister. He loved his niece. He loved his friends. He admired certain individuals. But his affections were always specific; they were not given away to all comers. This seems enough to me.

One day I sold my table-glass, and then in the night thought better of it, so that in the morning I drove to Nairobi and asked the lady who had bought it to call off the deal. I had no place to put the glass, but the fingers and lips of many friends had touched it, they had given me excellent wine to drink out of it; it was keeping an echo of old table-talk, and I did not want to part with it. After all, I thought, it would be an easy thing to break.

One Mother's Day, he gave Mom a music box that played the theme from Swan Lake. She cried for days over it.

The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

Man" Rhage muttered, "someone hit this place with the Hallmark stick." Until it broke.

My mom is very romantic. As is my dad. They appreciate real romance.

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.

We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.

I'm a romantic. I like romantic movies.

I guess I get a little sentimental, but I'm so used to moving on and making myself stronger where that's concerned, otherwise I would just be a wreck!

Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.

Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.

The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.

In politics, where everything romantic and sentimental is folly, the converse is usually considered true, and every brutality is thought sound sense

Her left hand dangled from the armrest, her long fingers and beautiful clear nails. She always had lovely, elegant hands; my own mother's fat-fingered scrubwoman hands looked like dog's paws beside Laurie's. I reached across to take her hand, lacing my fingers in hers so that our two hands made one fist. The sight of her hand in mine made me briefly sentimental. I gave her an encouraging look and jostled our knotted hands.