Acquaintance Quote by Gail Carson Levine

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

— Ben Jonson

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him…

— Kurt Cobain

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had…

— Lincoln Ellsworth

Not displaying your affection openly is a sign that you are ashamed of who you are with.

— Anonymous

People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time…

— Jenna Bush

Your father is the first person to tell me that I am lovely who seemed to mean it. The only people who've told me…

— E.D. Baker

I'm aware of what you've done for me, and I'm not ungrateful. I appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your…

— Anonymous

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on…

— Lincoln Steffens

A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding…

— Neal A. Maxwell

To you dad, I may not have gotten the chance to prove my love to you as expected of a son to his father,…

— Usman Ismaheel

When my husband tells our daughter, 'You get that trait from Mom,' she lights up with pride. We all know who he's talking about.…

— Daryn Kagan