Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear. (Quote by - Kenny Marchant)

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind (Quote by - Theophile Gautier)

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. (Quote by - Arthur Helps)

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)

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. (Quote by - Rene Cassin)

You always admire what you really don't understand. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

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. (Quote by - John Adams)

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. (Quote by - Ann Landers)

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor. (Quote by - Edward Everett)

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line. (Quote by - Major Owens)

I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York. (Quote by - George Pataki)

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section. (Quote by - Daniel H. Hill)

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities. (Quote by - William Odom)

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. (Quote by - Marie Louise)

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited. (Quote by - Joseph Franklin Rutherford)

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. (Quote by - Roald Amundsen)

Ignorance is the mother of admiration (Quote by - George Chapman)

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them. (Quote by - Robert B. Parker)

Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of. (Quote by - Scott Stapp)