Pastoral Resources

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.

I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.