Comfort And Support Quotes

#1. In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

Ivan Turgenev

#2. Millions of Americans find community, comfort and support in their faith.

Sheila Jackson Lee

#3. I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.

Anne Frank

#4. My family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.

Benjamin Bratt

#5. Evils have their comfort, good none can support.

George Herbert

#6. We must encourage, support and comfort one another.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers - he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think he's probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he became so mainstream and so popular.

Rick Astley

#8. This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage.

Eric Pianka

#9. Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on, it's accompanied by a whole host of other feelings.

Meghan O'Rourke

#10. Our house was open to anyone who needed a little extra support or comfort or just a home-cooked meal.

Nina Sankovitch

#11. Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

Midge Decter

#12. My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.

Peter O'Toole

#13. We'd held each other before, on lazy summer days, between private kisses and languid touches, but never anything that I would have considered a true hug: selfless support not instigated by desire, comfort for comfort's sake. This was different.

Rose Christo

#14. We are surrounded by those in need of our attention, our encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness ... We are the Lord's hands here upon the earth, with the mandate to serve and to lift His children. He is dependent upon each of us

Thomas S. Monson

#15. Such it is for those in the grips of misfortune: declarations of support and sympathy, rather than providing comfort, may merely increase the victim's pain.

Osamu Dazai

#16. Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

James Surowiecki

#17. After a stressful event, we often crave comfort food. Our body is calling for more glucose and simple carbohydrates and fat... And in modern life, people tend to have fewer friends and less support, because there's no tribe. Being alone is not good for the brain.

John J. Ratey

#18. THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Comfort, support, and care are essential in maintaining and improving an individual's mental efficiency, in part because they have important physiological calming effects (Schore, 1994; 2003b), and favorable effects on the immune system.

Onno Van Der Hart

#20. All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

James Madison

#21. An unhappy child not getting comfort or support at home will look for it somewhere else. Next

Gavin De Becker

#22. A good book laces invisible fingers into the shape of a winter armchair or a hammock in the sun. I'm not talking about comfort, necessarily, but support. A good writer might take you to strange and difficult places, but you're in the hands of someone you trust.

Brenda Walker

#23. Tavi looked wildly around the courtyard, and when his gaze flicked toward them, his face lit witha ferocious smile. "Uncle Bernard! Uncle Bernard!" he shouted, pointing at Doroga. "He followed me home! Can we keep him?

Jim Butcher

#24. Everyone plays guitar alone, but we can play side by side.

Jennifer Lane

#25. I've written about domestic violence in my book, Lola Rose and it's a great relief to know that terrified children like Jayni, my fictional heroine can use the special website and find support and comfort.

Jacqueline Wilson

#26. True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.

Lynn Coady

#27. I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don't hide within it.

Sonia Sotomayor

#28. The Trevor Romain Foundation is a project that I am most proud to be a part of. They work with the USO and help provide support and comfort to military children and their families.

Ryan Lee

#29. Oh, good Lord Jesus, I prayed, preserve me from this joking of God. Grief and trouble were all bad enough. But joking? It seemed altogether unfair, to me.

Judith Merkle Riley

#30. Peter was now standing very close - as if he wanted to comfort me - as if he knew how hurt I felt that Mrs Knowles had not asked me to play or to sing. And I did feel comforted. It was as if a tide of warmth was carrying me out of myself, inclining me to trust him and to conduct myself well.

Jennifer Paynter

#31. The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort.

James Monroe

#32. The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to save the world and simultaneously make you money (and create mindshare) for your company. Social innovation makes magic happen.

Richie Norton

#33. I found I could listen without envy to Letty's singing, and afterwards when the applause came, I did not mind that Mrs Knowles was heaping praises upon her. Peter's hands were on my chair, and when I leaned back I could feel them against my shoulders.

Jennifer Paynter

#34. Until we learn to love each other, try to understand each other, and be compassionate to each other, peace will be an illusion.

Debasish Mridha

#35. [I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely to grow into adults who can find these resources within themselves later on. (from the introduction)

Fred Rogers

#36. Sardinia is beautiful. The people were so friendly, and the food was incredible! I also loved Florence. I spent two months there as part of a school study-abroad program. On the weekends, we would get to travel wherever we wanted, so I would explore. That was a magical time.

Tia Mowry