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Quotes About Dear

A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.
~ Ian Caldwell
Honestly, my dear, I find myself struggling to care.
~ Craig Davidson
I played video games for years. I immersed myself in them. They're so beautiful. They have these gorgeous imaginary landscapes. And they were just very dear to me.
~ Porter Robinson
You had turned my life to a poem and its rhythm makes my dears and nears to rejoice ever and ever Happy Anniversary to you.
~ Unknown
We must determine whether we really want freedom--whether we are willing to dare the perils of...rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.
~ Unknown
Skulls" said Lady Lamorna. "Definitely skulls. Rows and rows of dear little skulls, sewn all along the hem.
~ Unknown
Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it but if often costs the world very dear.
~ Unknown
Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.
~ Plato
To speak knowing the truth, among prudent and dear men, about what is greatest and dear, is a thing that is safe and encouraging. But to present arguments at a time when one is in doubt and seeking... is a thing both frightening and slippery.
~ Plato
But now, here she was, very wishful to pray, while not knowing how to explain her dilemma: 'I'm terribly unhappy, dear, unprobable God—' would not be a very propitious beginning.
~ Radclyffe Hall
Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. I didna mean to lose my own heart's blood as well. For you are dearer to me even than home and family, love.'She cast a lopsided smile at Jamie. 'And that's saying quite a bit.
~ Diana Gabaldon
A standing cock is quite blind, my dear," he said at last, eyes still shut. "Surely you know that, physician that you are.
~ Diana Gabaldon
O my dear wife, said he, and you the children of my bowels, I, your dear friend, am in myself undone by reason of a burden that lieth hard upon me; moreover, I am for certain informed that this our city will be burned with fire from heaven; in which fearful overthrow, both myself, with thee my wife, and you my sweet babes, shall miserably come to ruin, except (the which yet I see not) some way of escape can be found, whereby we may be delivered.
~ John Bunyan
My love is like a summer day. It's so clean, so blue, so bright, so true... It warms my heart in every way. My love, my dear... it's you!
~ Unknown
We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.
~ H. G. Wells
How terribly dear!" she said. "How ineffably buddy-buddy! I shouldn't have gone running to him with my little heartache, Mr. McGee. It was selfish of me. It upset him, and it didn't do me any particular good. How can he check up on anything anyway? Why don't you just invent some soothing little story for him and go down and tell it to him and then go back to your beach-bum career, whatever it is?
~ John D. MacDonald
No - the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything's holy - everything, even me.
~ John Steinbeck
...And talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only happiness worth a wish.
~ Jane Austen
How foolish of me to have disregarded you, dear goddess. I won't make that mistake again.
~ Unknown
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
~ William Shakespeare
you know, my dear sir." "Oh!" said Ben literally, "I didn't know as you needed padding. All right, if it is necessary." "It's antique, and perfectly lovely, and just like Shakespeare," cried Polly
~ Unknown
takes its colours from the mind, my dear friend;"—he said—"If you discover evil suggestions in my music, the evil, I fear, must be in your own nature.
~ Marie Corelli
His countenance, dear Ellakins, is no strain upon young female eyes!
~ Mark Dunn
Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...
~ Martin Luther