Association Quotes

494 Association quotes by 393 unique authors

Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days… — Elizabeth Gaskell
When oranges came in, a curious proceeding was gone through. Miss Jenkyns did not like to cut the fruit, for, as she observed, the juice… — Elizabeth Gaskell
I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders. — Kurt Cobain
You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for… — Woodrow Wilson
Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a… — Sue Grafton
I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than… — Nick Cave
I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your… — Georgia O'Keeffe
But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt… — Terry Pratchett
What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased… — Douglas Hofstadter
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. — Antonin Artaud
Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless — Hugh Laurie
Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance… — John Taylor Gatto
I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of… — Mikhail Lermontov
the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,”… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows.… — Chuck Palahniuk
Consumers do not view communications in isolation. They bring with them all their past brand experiences and associations. — Unknown Author
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some… — Charles Dickens
The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
An idea is a feat of association. — Robert Frost
School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily… — John Taylor Gatto
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. — Henri Bergson
The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by… — Thomas B. Macaulay
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake… — Aristotle
A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is… — Aristotle
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the… — Mark Twain

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