Affection Quote by Washington Irving Download Open image “The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.” — Washington Irving ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affection Fatherhood Home Inspirational Love Nature Rallying
“The parent who sedulously endeavors to form the heart and enlarge the understanding of his child has given that dignity to the discharge of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The person who received maximum affection from mother, that person also sort of cultivated the potential showing affection to others. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“[F]or in this queer world of ours, fatherly and motherly hearts often beat warm and wise in the breasts of bachelor uncles and maiden aunts; and it is my private opinion that these worthy creatures are a beautiful provision of nature for the cherishing of other people's children. They certainly get great comfort out of it, and receive much innocent… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share
What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in… — William Bartram Copy Share Image
A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
