Quotes About Sentimental

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

Flowers would be wasted on me. I don't like valentines. I don't need gifts. I'm a pragmatic romantic.

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

I become so sentimental on planes: I could be watching 'Bridesmaids' and start crying.

I'm not much of a crier, actually. You know, I tend to cry and get sappy on planes.

By definition, comfort foods are rich and creamy or evocative of childhood pleasures.

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental.

I'm just coming from a more personal - and, I guess, more nostalgic - point of view.

I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.

I swear to God, like, every day, the majority of my day is sentimental.

I was a huge fan of the bandleader Ray Noble when I was younger. He was one of the biggest musical names of his day and wrote such romantic songs as 'Goodnight Sweetheart' and 'The Touch Of Your Lips.' Wonderful stuff.

Ben...hadn't known fear or despair or loss of control in his comfortable middle-class family. Bonnie could teach him a lot that was missing from his character. And he could give her a degree of stability and confidence. Knowing it was sentimental, Simmy nonetheless felt that this was a perfect match, which she would do well to safeguard to the best of her ability. Ben would teach Bonnie to tread more carefully and to think more logically. Each would help the other to grow up.

Le nom de « religiosité » ne conviendrait-il pas beaucoup mieux à un tel ensemble de vagues aspirations sentimentales, qu'une étrange illusion fait prendre pour de la « spiritualité » ?

Wolfe could get sentimental about it if he wanted to, but I don't like any stranger nosing around my private affairs, let alone a nation of 130 million people.-Archie Goodwin

Why did you have children?' Bertie asked, later in their lives. 'Was it just the biological imperative to breed?' 'That's why everyone has children,' Viola said. 'They just dress it up as something more sentimental.') Viola

Having learned the trick of beating and loving and suffering, the poor faithful heart persisted, although it lived on memories and carried on its sentimental operations mostly in secret.

We're both of us sentimental. We can't help it. Our generation still carry the old feelings. A part of us refuses to let go. The part that wants to keep believing there's something unreachable inside each of us. Something that's unique and won't transfer. But there's nothing like that, we know that now. You know that.

I even pulled out the can of cat treats. Yes, I'd bought him treats. Give it another month and I'd be collecting his shed whiskers and claws like a proud momma preserving her baby's first haircut and lost teeth.

As for happy…The pursuit of happiness may be written into our Declaration of Independence, but that only means our founding fathers were hopelessly sentimental. You don't pursue happiness. You pursue everything you need to have a fulfilled life, and then, if you achieve it, you'll be happy some of the time. The rest of the time, you'll be content. One can't sustain happiness forever.

I'm a romantic slob!

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.

She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.

You said yourself, people change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.