#sentimental

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#american #feminine #friends #gained #here

As for me I will follow the path of the pink bunnies. ↗

— Magenta Periwinkle

#coming-of-age #love #magenta-periwinkle #monkey #pink

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books? ↗

— Mitch Albom

#books #dark #dysfunctional #everybody #favorite

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#i #i write #problem #readers #sentimentality

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy. ↗

— Fred Durst

#i #i love #jazz #jazz music #love

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#fear #fed #fed up #i #jewish

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#allow #case #characters #childhood #comics

One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#back #closed #diamonds #engagement #few

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#any #audience #because #broadway #broadway shows

Because the man who stood there before us was not our father. He was somebody else, a stranger who had been sent back in our father's place. That's not him, we said to our mother, That's not him, but our mother no longer seemed to hear us..."Did you...she said. "Every day," he replied. Then he got down on his knees and he took us into his arms... ↗

— Julie Otsuka

#thought-provoking #thought-provoking