Growing Fond Of Someone Quotes

#1. Jesus Christ and St Paul possess the order of charity, not of the mind, for they wished to humble, not to teach.

Blaise Pascal

#2. I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

Edwyn Collins

#3. When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.

Salman Rushdie

#4. The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#5. He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.

Rick Yancey

#6. The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.

Keith Thibodeaux

#7. Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Constance Baker Motley

#8. When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

Fernando Pessoa

#9. I like to smile at the men who look mean so they know I believe in their better selves. That makes a difference in the world. This is how you might be able to reform a possible rapist without ever going to psychology school.

Aimee Bender

#10. The best American writers have come from the hinterlands
Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

Edward Abbey

#11. I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.

David Morse

#12. When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures. Fortunately, around my native town of Dunbar, by the stormy North Sea, there was no lack of wildness...

John Muir

#13. Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it.
I will take that as high praise.

George R R Martin

#14. I have fond memories of growing up in beautiful England. It is very much a part of the fabric of me, even though I left when I was quite young. It's just a very different culture over there, filled with a profound depth of history.

Samantha Newark

#15. Perhaps her requirements were too great,
Or her indulgence for human weakness too small,
For her attempts to form a friendship had always
Ended in disappointment.

A.L.O.E.

#16. We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

Eugene Jarecki

#17. Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand in the wings and watch other people take the curtain calls while his own contributions get lost in the shuffle.

Rod Serling

#18. I have very fond memories of growing up in Greece, of my brothers and I causing chaos and climbing up trees, which is really cool. Back then, we didn't have all the video games and all that stuff. We just had each other, and we played on the street.

Tracy Spiridakos

#19. Each time someone dies, a library burns.

Jandy Nelson

#20. Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

Dick Gregory

#21. [Melisandre] "His Grace is growing fond of you."
[Jon] "I can tell. He only threatened to behead me twice."
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George R R Martin

#22. I have such fond memories of watching 'Doctor Who' when I was a kid and growing up, that if I've left anybody anywhere with memories as fond, then I feel like I've done my job.

David Tennant

#23. When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees.

Trey Anastasio

#24. It is the darkness that makes the light visible, and not the other way around.

Nancy Venable Raine

#25. I'm wishing every Saturday had primaries, because welcome to an amazing Sunday, where everything seems a tad bit clearer this morning.

Chuck Todd

#26. I have fond memories from growing up in Switzerland and drinking a glass of warm milk with a spoonful of honey before bed.

Daniel Humm