Quotes about Affectionate
It's all very true! It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it.
- Charles Dickens
This pure young feeling, this gentle and forbearing feeling of each towards the other, brought with it its reward in a softening light that seemed to shine on their position. The relations between them did not look wilful, or capricious, or a failure, in such a light; they became elevated into something more self-denying, honorable, affectionate, and true.
- Charles Dickens
The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core—which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word love.
- Dallas Willard
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.
- Hillary Clinton
Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
- Ian Mckellen
Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.
- John Bunyan
A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive.
- Jane Goodall