Love Quotes

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
– Alex Grey
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
– Matt Groening
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
– Matt Groening
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
– Matt Groening
I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.
– Alma Guillermoprieto
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
The state of our state is fragile, but I know our spirit and love for Nevada is not.
– Kenny Guinn
Love is a friendhip with erotic moments.
– Antonio Gala
Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.
– Nomar Garciaparra
The gift of the family novelist is to turn the cleaning of a closet into an inventory of love and loss-to scan a poem from a shopping list.
– Marilyn Gardner
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
– Marion C. Garretty
Men who love humanity have all dreamed at least once during their lives of bringing all their fellow men together in a state of carefree happiness. And only the world of the theater ever really succeeds in doing this.
– Jean Jacques Gautier
Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the unlimited capacity to empathize with, feel for, care, and love one's brothers and sisters.
– Addison Gayle, Jr.
If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.
– Estelle Getty
Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price!
– Al Ghazali
Throughout the course of history, this country has remained free, not because of movie stars and liberal activists but because of brave men and women who hated war too - - but lay down their lives so that we all may live in freedom. After all - What greater love hath no man, that he lay down his life for his friend, but in this case a country.
– Jim Gibbons
Love that is hoarded moulds at last until we know some day the only thing we ever have is what we give away.
– Louis Ginsberg
Love forbids you not to love.
– Umberto Giordano
To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.
– Delphine de Girardin
Hi, Daddy. I love you. This is Michael. I'm seven now.
– Michael Glendon, Jr.
Love is the harmony of two souls singing together.
– Gregory J. P. Godek
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
– Natalie Goldberg
Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
– Natalie Goldberg
I have a simple answer to any American patriot who claims there is no conflict between his/her love of country and his/her desire to hitch our fate to the United Nations: 'You're mistaken.'
– Jonah Goldberg
I love both doggies and kitties. I could just scrunch up their cute little faces!
– Jeff Goldblum
There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.
– Karen Goldman
During those days in Goya, and under Alejandro's influence, an old sentimental rebellion came back - against the family, against Mother - and although I knew quite well the green naivete of that anemic state, it gripped me by the throat. Ah! Not to love one's mother!
– Witold Gombrowicz
You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.
– Witold Gombrowicz
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
– Edmond de Goncourt
I'm a meat girl and I just love having a beer.
– Jill Goodacre
I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the street fights and how you were afraid to cross the bridge 'cause the Irish kid on the other side would beat your head in. I left Chicago a long time ago.
– Benny Goodman
We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter...it's the way friends make love to one another.
– Annie Gottlieb
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
– Daniel S. Greenberg
To be tempted and indulged by the city's most brilliant chefs. It's the dream of every one of us in love with food.
– Gael Greene
Love is a lock that linketh noble minds,Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.
– Robert Greene
The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.
– Bede Griffiths
After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.
– Emm Gryner
I got more children than I can rightly take care of, but I ain't got more than I can love.
– Ossie Guffy
Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.
– A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.
– Deidre Hall
If an uninterested spectator, after a careful perusal of the New Testament, were asked what he conceived to be its distinguishing characteristic, he would reply without hesitation, That wonderful spirit of philanthropy by which it is distinguished. It is a perpetual commentary on that sublime aphorism, 'God is love.'
– Robert Hall
I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.
– Tom T. Hall
Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plow, love with the burden on its back, love following his footsteps who went about continually doing good.
– James Hamilton
I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good in waders. I love my waders. I don't think there is anything sexier than just standing in waders with a fly rod. I just love it.
– Linda Hamilton
I would love to find other pop stars who would be willing to tour with our orchestra. One of the benefits of James Taylor was that he had orchestrations. Many stars do not. My wish list would be exceedingly long, and at the top of it would be Kenny G and Carly Simon. Of course, the cost of some of these artists might be prohibitive.
– Marvin Hamlisch
Ravel is one of my favorite orchestrators, and I love Stravinsky's work, and Beethoven.
– Herbie Hancock
Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.
– Tom Hanks
I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.
– Tom Hanks
Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.
– Tom Hanks
I'm not a big partier. I love when my emotions are real; not a pill that I popped to make me feel something. I can't stand when people use drugs as an escape. It's like, everybody suffers. Deal with your issues, you'll feel so much better.
– Alyson Hannigan
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
– Sydney J. Harris
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
– Frank Harris
I am writing this because I love you, so that sustained within your warming heart our future days remain locked-to this simple message.
– Brian Harris
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
– Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul.
– George Harrison
Love one another.
– George Harrison
Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.
– Josh Hartnett
I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.
– Brian Harvey
Angelina Jolie and I love each other. IF that's unusual these days, that's sad.
– James Haven
I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.
– Goldie Hawn
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
– Helen Hayes
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
– William Hazlitt
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
– William Hazlitt
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
– William Hazlitt
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
– William Hazlitt
One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well - but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?
– Shirley Hazzard
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
– Shirley Hazzard
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
– Ben Hecht
I would love to work with Ron Howard. I think he is brilliant. I love the stories that he chooses. They're always very personal and intense. He loves a lot of emotion, and he's so well equipped to pull all of that out of the actors. I really love that kind of thing and I think that's what movies should be about.
– Tippi Hedren
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
– Carolyn Heilbrun
The journey is over. Love to all.
– Carolyn Heilbrun
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
– Ernest Hemingway
I love the gay community. Naturally having been in this business since I was 17, I came into contact with gay people very young in my life. To me they were always the most talented, the kindest, they have the most wicked senses of humor - I always felt comfortable. I was never threatened, ever, and I just embraced them and loved them.
– Florence Henderson
I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.
– Florence Henderson
My goal has always been to be like a female George Burns. Having had the opportunity to work with him so many times, especially at the end of his life, I felt so inspired by him all the time. I totally agreed with him. We would talk about how lucky we were to find something that we loved when we were kids and to just grow more in love with it as time goes on.
– Florence Henderson
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
– Jimi Hendrix
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
– Jimi Hendrix
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
– Robert Henri
It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
– O. Henry
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
– O. Henry
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
– Brad Henry
What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
– Brad Henry
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
– George Herbert
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
– George Herbert
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well.
– Oliver Herford
Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
– Robert Herrick
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
– Robert Herrick
You say to me - wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long.
– Robert Herrick
Moral values, if you want to use them correctly, begin with love of your fellow man. And if they teach, not love, but hatred; if they teach you to be certain that your fellow man is part of what the Christians once... when they wanted to beat up on Jews... then it is the call to war, it is the call to fascism, and it makes God into Hitler! Quote me.
– Arthur Hertzberg
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
– Theodore Hesburgh
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
– Hermann Hesse
I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.
– Jennifer Love Hewitt
I love that whole princess mentality, but I also like throwing my hair in a ponytail and just wearing jeans, going on a hike and then eating a big chili-cheeseburger.
– Jennifer Love Hewitt