Sentimental Value Quotes

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn't just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.

Some of them [family names] have sentimental value for some reason or another, some of them just sound beautiful. Some of them are because of people that are meaningful to us in our lives. So it's hard to say which one we'll pick. Sometimes they say you have to see the child before you decide. So maybe when we see her we'll make a last-second decision.

Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.