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Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature! Have I not worshipped thee with such a love As never mortal man before displayed? Adored thee in thy majesty of visible creation, And searched into thy hidden and mysterious ways As Poet, as Philosopher, as Sage? -- Humphry Davy
I was adored once too. -- William Shakespeare
In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity. -- Anne Boyd
There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me. -- Kate Bush
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. -- Maurice Sendak
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life. -- Jan de Bont
If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest. -- Christian Bale
But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored! -- Isabella Rossellini
I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored. -- Harrison Ford
When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross. -- Marina and the Diamonds
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. -- Maya Angelou
I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it. -- Julie Andrews
My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word. -- Erica Jong
That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend. -- Minna Antrim
I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works. -- Lauren Bacall
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing. -- Lana Del Rey
Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child. -- Lois Lowry
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. -- J. K. Rowling
You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star. -- Madonna Ciccone
I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them. -- Liam Neeson
I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'. -- Tracy Chevalier
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame. -- June Carter Cash
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same. -- Alice Walker
Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. -- Maurice Sendak
I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life. -- Jennifer Lopez
One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier. -- Claire Tomalin
I adored my father. -- Nancy Wake
Only conformists are ever adored. -- Catherine Breillat
To be adored is something I recommend -- Tom Baker
No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral. -- Kate Millett
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow. -- Salman Rushdie
There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson. -- Don Rickles
Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence. -- Martin Short
The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt. -- Henry Adams
Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb. -- George Crabbe
One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity. -- Baltasar Gracian
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age. -- Mason Cooley
I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do. -- Margaret Forster
All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I've adored them all. -- Helen Hayes
I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals. -- Julie Harris
If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals... -- Henri Frederic Amiel
I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much. -- Dan Fogelman
Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her. -- Augusten Burroughs
I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored. -- Josh Ritter
I love J. F. K. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him. -- Tim Matheson
Key Largo... I could have stayed on that picture for the rest of my life. I adored it. -- Claire Trevor
Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful. -- Stella Gibbons
I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him. -- George Hamilton
My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him. -- Bruce Coville
I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them. -- Deanna Raybourn
Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood. -- Don Rickles
God designed in different faiths adored by different human communities are all limbs of the One God that really is. -- Sathya Sai Baba
When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection. -- Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember. -- Thomas C Foster
I just adored working in London. It was in London where I first had the idea of making a film. -- Colin Farrell
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it. -- Simon McBurney
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored. -- Oscar Wilde
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love. -- Peter Kreeft
You're adored and you're talented and the world is waiting to see the results of hard work for the last year -- Natalie Dormer
She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it. -- Ally Carter
Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about. -- Jill Soloway
Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away. -- Nancy Pearl
A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires. -- Edward Young
ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. -- Ambrose Bierce
How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow. -- Honore de Balzac
I was a married woman and I had a baby. I would have adored it, but I just couldn't do it because I'm a lady. -- Ruth Warrick
Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Wouldn't it be lovely if death gave us a day's notice so giants like George Michael could see how much they were revered and adored. -- Gary Lineker
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back. -- Anne Lamott
I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason. -- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent. -- Berthold Auerbach
As created beings, angels are not to be worshipped, glorified, or adored in and of themselves. The angels were created to worship, glorify, adore, and obey God. -- Tony Evans
The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored. -- Merle Shain
If what makes a person an artist is their work, they should be admired; if what makes a person an artist is themselves, they should be adored. -- Gregor Collins
My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody. -- Judy Woodruff
My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.' -- Judy Woodruff
My father was a deeply spiritual, prophetic man, [who] I adored. I watched him pray as a boy and wanted to know the "Jesus" he shed tears for. -- Jonathan Cain
It's easy to get attached to idols, good things inappropriately adored. But when you have Jesus in the centre of a room, everything else only junks up the decor. -- Charles R. Swindoll
To live in the shadow of another person...to desire to be adored as that person is....is the weakest ambition of all. Find yourself. Be loved as yourself. -- Faye Hall
It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed. -- Alexander Pope
What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless. -- Joyce Carol Oates
He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange. -- Bruce Robinson
I could go anywhere in the world and people would stop me in the street and talk about 'Fringe' and how much they adored it and asked questions about it. -- John Noble
A body - physical, astral, dead - might be treated as an object, might be adored and hated. So this story has emerged from the material that the body is. -- Malgorzata Szumowska
At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure. -- Jamaica Kincaid
I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored. -- Lee Radziwill
Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice. -- P. G. Wodehouse
We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music. -- Andy Partridge
How lucky I've been to live in such beautiful places and able to make them as I dreamed. I've been lucky. I've adored my houses more than my friends (or husbands). -- Nancy Lancaster
To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her. -- Jacques-Henri Lartigue
I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people. -- Michael Servetus
I wanted to be a veterinarian. I adored animals, raised everything in the world and decided that was going to be what I was going to do. But I could sing. -- Shirley Jones
Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it. -- Saint Augustine
Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it. -- Dori Berinstein
I was born with a love of animals, the same way I was born with brown hair. When I was a little girl in Rome, I always had pets, which I adored. -- Isabella Rossellini
Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that. -- Carmen Ejogo
...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside. -- Shirley MacLaine
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. -- Oscar Wilde
All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure. -- Samantha Fox
You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. -- Madonna Ciccone
Against snow, a tall Beautiful Being. Whistlings of death and circles of muffled music make this adored body rise, swell and tremble like a ghost; scarlet and black wounds open in the magnificent flesh. -- Arthur Rimbaud
Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself. -- Oscar Wilde
Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will. -- Dario Argento
In England the boy pats his adored one on the back and says softly, "I don't object, you know." If he is quite mad with passion, he may add: "I rather fancy you, in fact. -- George Mikes
I can't tell you how may beautiful women have broken up with me because they were bored. I can't tell you because it never happened. They all adored me." "It was your humility, wasn't it? -- Derek Landy
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. -- Andrew Motion
Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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