Emotional State

Famous quotes containing the words emotional state, emotional and/or state:

    Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child’s approval, more alert to the child’s emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the child’s suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weapon—the power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse.
    Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)

    Harvey, Jr.: Say, Dad. Suppose you could lend me fifty for the trip home?
    Harvey: I hate these emotional farewells.
    Tom Waldman (d. 1985)

    I thought that a Jewish state would be free of the evils afflicting other societies: theft, murder, prostitution.... But now we have them all. And that’s a thing that cuts to the heart ...
    Golda Meir (1898–1978)