Endearment Quotes

• Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

  Edmund Burke

  Friendship, Mind, Pleasure

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.39

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• I love my baby like the finest wine, I'll stick with her until the end of time.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Baby, Wine, Sticks

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• I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.

  Zig Ziglar

  Believe, Names, Feelings

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• Maybe I'm damned if I do, but with every other beat I got left in my heart, you know I'd rather be damned with you.

  Meat Loaf

  Heart, Beats, Knows

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• Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Caring, Cookies, Sugar

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• I need you like the blues needs the pain.

  Janet Jackson

  Pain, Needs, Need You

  Song: My Need, Album: The Velvet Rope, 1997

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• What drives me to you, drives me insane.

  Bob Dylan

  Insane

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• No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness; and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Thinking, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.384

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• We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core - which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word "love".

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Father, Tired

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• My husband calls me a ginger every single day of my life, so that Im completely used to it, and Ive come to see it as a term of endearment.

  Jayma Mays

  Husband, Ginger, Used

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• I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  Interview with Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. March 12, 2011.

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• Ashley tugged on his sleeve. "You're scaring me Walter." "Sorry I guess talking about ghosts is-" "It's not that," she interrupted shaking her head. "You're using logic. That's scaring me." Walters eyebrows knitted. "So much for terms of endearment

  Bryan Davis

  Sorry, Talking, Eyebrows

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• That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland

  Jonathan Stroud

  Kissing, Fire, Hug

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• Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding," “Why are they all high-calorie foods?

  Richelle Mead

  Pie, Bread Pudding, Use

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.81, Penguin

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• It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

  James Ellis

  Family, Joy, Mind

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• The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Kissing, Race, Abuse

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 4: Round Heads & Pointed Heads; Fear & Misery of the Third Reich; Senora Carrar's Rifles; Trial of Lucullus; Dansen; How Much Is Your Iron?”, p.377, A&C Black

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• Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  True Love, Book, Heart

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• If I don't love you, baby, grits ain't groceries.

  Little Milton

  Baby, Love You, Grit

  Song: Grits Ain't Groceries

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• In my younger days, I used to pick up sluts, and I don't mean that nastily. It's more a term of endearment, really, for girls who know how to speak their minds.

  Kevin Costner

  Girl, Mean, Mind

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• I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul particularly capable of the Tenderness of that Endearment ... we may generally conclude the Marriage of a Friend to be the Funeral of a Friendship.

  Katherine Philips

  Friendship, Funeral, Soul

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• I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

  Elvis Costello

  Promise, May, Being True

  Song: Men Called Uncle, Album: Get Happy!!, 1980

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• Sydney: "You can be Jet if you want, but we are not posing as a couple again" Adrian: "Are you sure? Because I've got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding." Sydney: "Why are they all high-calorie foods? And bread pudding isn't really that romantic." Adrian: "Do you want me to call you celery stick instead? It just doesn't inspire the same warm and fuzzy feelings." - The Indigo Spell

  Richelle Mead

  Couple, Pie, Bread Pudding

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• To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Years, Long

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”

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• The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.

  Judd Apatow

  Real, Character, Two

  "Director Nicholas Stoller and Producer Judd Apatow Talk THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT" by Christina Radish, collider.com. April 21, 2012.

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• They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.

  Anne Lamott

  Religious, Israel, Justice

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.26, Anchor

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