Quotes About Sentiment

My parents weren't very good at keeping things, which is why I treasure my own sons' work so much now - I don't want to lose anything.

I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

When you don't do something anymore, all of a sudden everyone treasures it.

I simply loved all my life; loved is too strong a word, but I had a tremendous sentiment, partly conditioned, of course, by the reality of where I grew up, for the spirit of individualism, for the idea of your being on your own in a big way.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

I think this is the sweetest tribute I have ever seen in this town.

Love is not a mere sentiment but an instrument of ability.

Life is not a problem but an endless possibility.Love is not a mere sentiment but an instrument of ability.

The thought of you makes my heart melt.

Memories are like moonbeams; we do with them what we want.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

Similarly, bear cubs have been observed eating their mothers several hours after the mother's death. Signals between bears are fundamentally important—a mother bear may become a carcass to be scavenged if she stops signaling, I am functioning as your mother. Bears appear to be more pragmatic than sentimental.

That uncivilized heathen nations should first be civilized, and then Christianized, is a sentiment of the past. Now it is coming more and more to be acknowledged, that the Bible is the great civilizer of the nations.

A world with zombies in it had no tolerance for softness or sentiment. The dreadfuls infected everything just by virtue of existing. To live in their world, one had to become like them. Dead inside. So

Boss, what, exactly, are we doing here?" "Feeling maudlin." "Oh. Good. How long are we planning on doing that?" "Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" "What?" "Never mind.

With my daughters, it didn't matter how much it was not my thing, we went through two truly horrible pink phases. I bought an awful lot of Barbie rubbish, and it was a great day when I was allowed to send Barbie's house to the skip. That was one of the best days of my life.

Music and smells are the most memory-recall, nostalgia-inducing things.

My parents wielded disposal cameras and Polaroids with the best of them, occasionally begging for at least one decent photo of my brother and me at the state fair, in front of the Golden Gate bridge, or smiling half-heartedly next to a mascot.

The first record I was really into was the Drifters' 'When My Little Girl Is Smiling.'

I think I would have one favourite jacket, one favourite pair of sneakers - like, from every kind of thing I do have my favourite - but they're often the things I wear the least because I just want to keep them nice, so I don't really tend to wear them as much.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

His kindness tore at her heartstrings...

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.

He who says o'er much I love not is in love.