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“I explained to them that we need to learn to let go of things we no longer need to make room for new things... and that these toys they love will also be loved by their new owners.”
Camille Prats (born 1985) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Camille Prats teaches children the value of money and sharing: "Time to declutter", 14 January 2026.
“To my family and loved one, for always supporting me, praying for me, for the never-ending love that you've given me. Thank you for trying all the food I cook hehehe 🙈 ❤️.”
Bea Binene (born 1997) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bea Binene explains why she chooses to keep her relationship private, Toff C.,Push Team, 20 August 2025.
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned about life, it is that it is unpredictable. Your loved one can be gone in the blink of an eye. So always live in the present, express your love, and learn to forgive. Thank you again for letting me share my grief with all of you.” better. Because I know they're with me in my heart.”
Ice Seguerra (born 1983) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ice Seguerra pushes through with birthday concert despite his grief: 'I’ll make them proud!', Rhea Manila Santos, Push Team 4 July 2025.
“And it is precisely when you are no longer afraid of losing your loved one that love dies. (interlude I)”
Michela Marzano (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A woman by whom we are loved is a vanity; a woman whom we love is a religion.”
Émile de Girardin (1802–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Give me love and contentment that I may proclaim thy glory, Lord of earth; give me health with competence, a pious heart, and a steadfast mind; give me children, worthy of all care; scare from my cheerful hearth the foe away; then give me wings, and one small hill of sand in my loved Fatherland, give wings to the soul so unwilling to flee, that it may easily tear itself from this beautiful world.”
Achim von Arnim (1781–1831) said by 1831 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gebet ('Prayer') as translated by Craufurd Tait Ramage, Beautiful Thoughts from German and Spanish Authors, rev. ed. (Liverpool: Edward Howell, 1880) p. 2
“(Writing to Benigno Zaccagnini) Due to an obvious incompatibility, I ask that neither State authorities nor party officials attend my funeral. I ask to be followed by the few who truly loved me and are therefore worthy of accompanying me with their prayers and their love.”
Aldo Moro (1916–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How'ere God requires truth in the inward parts, yet the inward parts alone are not all he requires, he will not know, that he is loved, unlesse that love doe outwardly appeare, and expression we must make of our Feare, or els he will not acknowledge, that we doe feare him.”
Matthew Wren (1585–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(About Alida Valli) I can say one thing that sums it all up: I loved her, and I still love her very much. She was wonderful because she was, and still is, beautiful inside and out.”
Mariangela Melato (1941–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men can love a tree, a cottage, a stream; Flavian loved Avalon as being the temple of the unutterable memories of the past.”
Warwick Deeping (1877–1950) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love among the Ruins (London: Grant Richards, 1904), pt. 3, ch. 28, p. 203
“Each day goes by and each night, I cry Somebody saw you with her last night You gave me your word, "Don't worry 'bout her" You might love her now, but you loved me first Said you'd never hurt me, but here we are Oh, you swore on every star How could you be so reckless with my heart?”
Madison Beer (born 1999) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From your open side, ark of salvation, furnace of charity, came blood and water, a sign of the sacraments and tenderness of your love, O Christ, who loved us and washed us in your blood!”
Gaspar del Bufalo (1786–1837) said by 1837 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Very influenced by Love Jones directed by Theodore Witcher. Loved how that film was so affirming. I saw it as a student and always wanted to make a film like it.”
Akin Omotoso (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I sincerely believed I was going to be a surgeon. However, I had always been a storyteller and performer while growing up. While in college (university), my love for films crystallised the expression of that storytelling for me into motion picture format. I guess the simple answer is I loved films so much, so I decided to make them.”
BB Sasore wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once again, I wish you and your loved ones a blessed Eid filled with love, peace, and blessings. Eid Mubarak to the wonderful people of Ifo/Ewekoro Federal Constituency!” The speech reads.”
Ibrahim Ayokunle Isiaka (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be an Afrikan woman is to know that we, Afrikan men and women, are the mirrors of each other’s souls in which we find our ability to love and be loved. To be an Afrikan woman is to know that your man is the voice which affirms your womaness. It is to be able to feel him say.”
Marimba Ani wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Work in the parishes, love Jesus and make Him loved, bring His word, pray for the Pope, for the Bishops, for the priests, and for the whole Church.”
Maria Marino Marraffa (died 2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have never loved anything the way I love the endz.”
Caleb Femi (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I [felt] very loved. I love my fans. They gave me a very warm welcome — shout out to Day N Vegas. This is my second time performing here, and last time it was lit, but this time was unmatched.”
Rico Nasty (born 1997) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to be loved is an insupportable death.”
Voltaire (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“a heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others”
L. Frank Baum (misattributed) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: this is a line spoken by Frank Morgan's depiction of the Wizard of Oz in the 1939 film, which debuted 20 years after Baum's death. It did not actually appear in the "Wonderful Wizard of Oz". The ending of "Steam Engines…
“And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.”
Kahlil Gibran (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I saw Analyze This, and I couldn't keep my eyes off him. He's great. I loved Shakespeare in Love, too, and thought the whole cast in that was amazing.”
Eliza Dushku (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you ask why Mary Magdalene was the one chosen to whom first of all Christ should show Himself after the resurrection? This we know — she trusted in Him, and she loved Him; she waited at His sepulchre; she sought, she looked, she wept; and if we would have Christ reveal Himself to us, we, too, must seek and wait and long and trust and love.”
William Adams (minister) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.”
Francis, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) said by 1680 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My mission is to fill broken hearts with the love and the mercy of God. Only a heart which has loved can know peace, harmony with neighbour, dialogue of life.”
Anthony Soter Fernandez (1932–2020) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: NEW ARCHBISHOP OF KUALA LUMPUR ILLUSTRATES PASTORAL PLAN:“BEAR WITNESS TO CHRIST AS A UNITED LOCAL CHURCH AND BUILD HARMONY WITH OUR MUSLIM FRIENDS (4 June 2003) Fides News Agency
“A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.”
Edward Coke (1549–1634) first seen 1592 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Case of Swans, 7 Rep. 15, 17 (1592).
“He who loves the law dies either mad or poor.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) said by 1627 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom.”
Thomas Heywood (1574–1641) first seen 1635 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells (1635).
Also quoted by: Philip Massinger
“Let moderation on thy passions wait; Who loves too much, too much the lov'd will hate.”
Robert Herrick (poet) first seen 1038 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1038. "Moderation
“Like will to like, each creature loves his kind; Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind.”
Robert Herrick (poet) first seen 1043 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1043. "Like Loves His Like
“Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in. Then fill to-night, with hearts as light To loves as gay and fleeting As bubbles that swim on the beaker’s brim And break on the lips while meeting.”
Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806–1884) first seen 1840 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sparkling and Bright (published 1840).
“He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires,— As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away.”
Thomas Carew (1594–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.”
Vernon Howard (1918–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, rejoice, the Cleansing of my lips... rejoice, Salvation of my soul! I still have a thousand half-loves... oh, my God! I want to shoot myself just thinking about it! And you think I don't mean what I say?”
Aaron Weiss wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your petitioners are Atheists and they define their lifestyle as follows. An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now - here on earth- for all men together to enjoy.”
Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919–1995) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: MURRAY v. CURLETT, Petition for Relief, 1959
“Man loves knowledge, and the beams of truth More welcome touch his understanding's eye Than all the blandishments of sound his ear, Than all of taste his tongue.”
Mark Akenside (1721–1770) said by 1770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seize all the joy you can that robs no other. Sleep in peace, play in jolly earnest, wag well and mean it, and finally, be happy always. The more I see of dogs the less I think of men. Whoever beats dogs loves not man.”
Arsène Houssaye (1814–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: James O'Donnell Bennett (1908) When Good Fellows Get Together, p. 109
“Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined. Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power; Thoughts that ascend, like angels beautiful, A shining Jacob's ladder of the mind.”
Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No wonder round those urns of mingled clays That Tuscan potters fashion’d in old days, And colour’d like the torrid earth ablaze,We find the little gods and loves portray’d, Through ancient forests wandering undismay’d, And fluting hymns of pleasure unafraid.”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sonnet XLIII: "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" (1923), Collected Poems", 1931
“For loves lawe is out of reule.”
John Gower (1330–1408) said by 1408 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O Venus, queene of lovës cure, Thou lif, thou lust, thou mannës hele, Behold my cause and my querele, And yif me som part of thi grace.”
John Gower (1330–1408) said by 1408 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bk. 1, line 132 (ed. G. C. Macauley, vol. 2, 1901)
“However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.”
William Cobbett (1763–1835) first seen 1794 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter, Philadelphia, to Rachel Smithers (6 July 1794), published in The Autobiography of William Cobbett: The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament, ch. 5, p. 57 (1933)
“Somebody embroidered the doily. Somebody waters the plant, or oils it, maybe. Somebody arranges the rows of cans […] Somebody loves us all.”
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'd just like to point out that Billy Joel looks like the result of a depraved breeding experiment between Ringo Starr and the tall bloke from Everybody Loves Raymond. (7 July 2004)”
Ben Croshaw (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, we'm come up from Somerset, Where the cider apples grow, We'm come to see your Majesty, An' how the world do go. And when you're wanting anyone, If you'll kindly let us know, We'll all come up from Somerset, Because we loves you so!”
Fred Weatherly (1848–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?”
Alan Ayckbourn (born 1939) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Crash Course in Playwriting" (1993) .
“You know what I want in a woman, Paul?" "What's that?" "A friend. A true friend; someone who knows me and loves me anyway. You know, like when I'm through putting my best foot forward, she's still there, still the same.”
Don Miller (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People are not their diseases....without touching on the quality of a person's life, their loves, concerns, and fears, we ignore a gigantic area of resource and disease.”
Patch Adams (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source