Quotes about "Love & Romance"

A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me - when I wasn't saying it to her. ”

I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then. ”

I think we need a public, strategic, cooperative relationship with Israel. ”

I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school. ”

From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its source. It was my foster mother, a half-Indian, half-German woman, who taught me to read, though she herself was barely literate. I remember her reading to me every day from 'True Romance' magazine. ”

I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot. ”

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. ”

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. ”

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out. ”

What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz. ”