Fondness Quotes - page 2

Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life; Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o'er thee. (Thomas Otway)
For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely negative views of the US as a geopolitical player. View quote
Mohsin Hamid
The more things for which you develop a fondness the richer the life you live. View quote
Dan Buettner
If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite. View quote
Andrea Bocelli
I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region. View quote
Alan Ball
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era. View quote
Bob Iger
I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times. View quote
David Tang
Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary. View quote
Danny Boyle
Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth. View quote
Herb Ritts
I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television. View quote
Jeffrey Bewkes
There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself - which may account for my fondness for doing different voices. (Jefferson Mays)
He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit. View quote
Mary C. Jones
My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged. View quote
Teresa Heinz
She could remember the girl she used to be with fondness, but it wasn't a youth she cared to recapture. View quote
Daniel Abraham
I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.' View quote
Daniel Tammet
In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee. View quote
George Eliot
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk-handsome, twentytwoyearold. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness.... But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Parents and children seldom act in concert each child endeavours to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
Proneness to changes and fondness for experiment have never been the character of the English nation. (Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston)
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people; the other qualities make one proud of loving them too. View quote
Hester Thrale
As he silently approached the last float, a latticework ball of reeds, he offered an unspoken prayer to He Who Always Steps on Sand that even now the little bottom-walkers were pushing and shoving their way into the cage below. Because of his unusual education, which included a year living on Perdruin-unheard of for a Wrannaman-Tiamak did not really believe in He Who Always Steps on Sand anymore, but he still held a fondness for him, such as might be felt for a senile grandfather who often tumbled down from the house, but once brought nuts and carved toys. Besides, it never hurt to pray, even if one did not believe in the object of prayer. It helped to compose the mind, and, at the very least, it impressed others. View quote
Tad Williams
Hmmm. Someone has a high opinion of himself. Comes with being royalty, I suppose. Like funny hats and a fondness for beheadings. View quote
Brandon Sanderson