Fondness Quotes

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother. - Patricia Highsmith

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness. - Mary Worley Montagu

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old. - William Somerset Maugham

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. - Samuel Johnson

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness. - Alphonsus Liguori

I've gone through phases of just forgiving your parents for not being as young as they used to be or not being able to do the things they could do before, and I think this film is about forgiveness. It has a real fondness and a real bitterness as well towards family members. - Jodie Foster

It's very tough to crack the studios. It's 100 percent easier with Terry at the helm. His role in Yahoo! has made Hollywood take notice. When I walk into a studio, they have a perceptible fondness and interest in Yahoo! because of him. - Doug Hirsch

It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'. - Danny Boyle

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. - George Eliot