#affection

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#acute #affectionate #articulate #deal #drinking

In life, there are no perfect affections. ↗

— James Merrill

#life #perfect

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#child #gentle #man #manners #mild

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. ↗

— William Godwin

#beings #between #children #great #human

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#never #talk #wasted

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

#aid #certain #despise #elevation #helpful

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#affectionate #communication #insight

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life. ↗

— Tupac Shakur

#deal #giving #had #how #i

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him. ↗

— Michael Shanks

#affection #almost #any #character #having

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#again #bid #days #death #echo