Quotes About Care And Affection

#1. People should treat the oceans like we do anything else that we care about - with consideration, with care, and affection. That's it. For that we must educate.

Walter Munk

#2. We are obligated to the people we care about and who we allow to care about us, whether we say we love them or not. Our main obligation is to be forthright - to elucidate the nature of our affection when such elucidation would be meaningful or clarifying.

Cheryl Strayed

#3. The more you love your children, the more care you should take to neglect them occasionally. The web of affection can be drawn too tight.

Dominique Sutton

#4. A little suspension of disbelief will take you a long way.

Me

#5. I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

Emma Watson

#6. I confess that I enjoy this vocation, in spite of my sex. I feel a certain thrill, as if I were visiting a lover. But it is money I court, money that woos me, and the intoxicating power to earn a very great deal.

Sandra Gulland

#7. Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#8. So many of us have loved ones and people we really care about, and the only time we show affection is when they are gone. I have preached at funerals, and you see loved ones who didn't even say hello to dear ones when they were alive. Give them hugs, kisses while they are alive and need it.

George Foreman

#9. Love is a natural instinct that grows if it is nurtured. It evolves itself but withers if it is not watered with affection, care, respect and kindness.

Balroop Singh

#10. The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!

Alphonse De Lamartine

#11. When we realize and embrace the Lord's will for us, we will love to do it. We won't want to do anything else. It's a passion.

Franklin Graham

#12. I love somebody who can make me laugh and be a goofball. I think it's incredibly sexy if a guy can look uncool and completely not care. Also, somebody who likes to show affection. I show a lot of affection.

Jessica Biel

#13. When we are loving, we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust.

Bell Hooks

#14. Real affection does not see anything in terms of 'rights', nor does it even care if it is reciprocated. It merely waits by the door and hopes."
From 'A Walking Shadow

E.M. Swift-Hook

#15. My affection for you is not my problem.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#16. To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.

Bell Hooks

#17. A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#18. We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

Walter Savage Landor

#19. Mr Gray didn't care much for Jonesy's body (or so he told himself; in truth it was hard not to feel at least some affection for something capable of providing such unexpected pleasures as 'bacon' and 'murder'), but it did have to take him another couple of hundred miles.

Stephen King

#20. The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

Wendell Berry

#21. Fern's never had very good luck with animals. She smothers them with affection and care and they thank her by croaking. Fern hasn't figured out how to play hard to get.

Amy Harmon

#22. Soul Sister
Evoking all my inner goodness
with bastions of time
I cradle your heart
sisterly into mine ...

Muse

#23. If the guy likes/loves you, he won't care if you are a good kisser or not.
He should like you for what you are - not how you kiss.

Meg Cabot

#24. The first principle of recovery is the empowerment of the survivor. She must be the author and arbiter of her own recovery. Others may offer advice, support, assistance, affection, and care, but not cure.

Judith Lewis Herman

#25. A concrete love is a mass of emotion formed into a compound mixture
of affection, care, desire and expectation.

Munia Khan

#26. Why do you fight it?" I whisper.
"Because this is wrong. I lost my head for a moment. I'd blame the alcohol but that would be a lie.

N. Michaels

#27. I was an open field, full and plentiful, needing tender love and care. My parents drove the plow over me, tearing up my soil. They left me broken. Thirsty for love. Hungry for affection.

Tiffany Aleman

#28. I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn't turned out to be.

Gabrielle Zevin

#29. I have great affection for you, Roy" I answered, "but I don't think you are the sort of person I'd care to have breakfast with.

W. Somerset Maugham

#30. Only teasing', Death seemed to be saying over his shoulder with a rictus smile, with good humor and an oddly paternal affection. 'Take care of yourself, okay? We'll play again.

Barry Eisler

#31. God is like a lover. Sometimes he gives you so much pain that staying alive seems like a punishment but in the next moment he shows you so much love, affection and care that you forget all your pains. Yes, the wounds can't be healed completely but god compensates it with other happiness.

Mayank Kashyap

#32. Bonding through caregiving..I don't think I'd ever realized until then that so much affection, so much heart connect, happens when we take care of someone.

Lindsey O'Connor

#33. I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

David Duchovny

#34. There was no one to comfort the children, no one to embrace them, no one to love them. Care and control were what the dormitories were all about, not love and affection.

Ruth Hegarty