Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!
John Pearson

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
Samuel Richardson

Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
Madeleine Stowe

Most people would rather give than get affection.
Aristotle

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
Franz Boas

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.
David Ogden Stiers

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.
Shakira

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
Evelyn Waugh

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
Basil Rathbone

No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
Abdul Qadeer Khan

Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.
Charles Eastman

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
Joseph Butler

Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.
Nick Clooney

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.
James Weldon Johnson

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
Zhang Ziyi

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
J. G. Holland

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
William Dean Howells

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Mark Hopkins