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You and I are black and white - a film noir, filled with gestures, poignant and tender — John Geddes

Fine. The next time that my life is destroyed, I'll try to express my distress in a quieter fashion, far away from your tender sensibilities. — Colleen Houck Ren

Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring, but neglected it will soon wither and die. — Hugh B. Brown

The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky. — Elizabeth Oakes Smith

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. — Josh Billings

A simple smile, a tender touch, speaks the true language of love. — Dan Fogelberg

But to be honest, there is only so much battle a man can take. I think all of us crave a quieter life with a tender touch. (Sparhawk) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of. — Gloria Steinem

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become. — Edgar Allan Poe

The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough. — Maya Angelou

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones. — Frederick Tennyson

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Our aging parents deserve the same loving care they gave us in infancy
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

Yesterday is past. Tomorrow is only a promise. Only today is legal tender. — Venita VanCaspel

When one gives undivided attention to the (vital) breath, and brings it to the utmost degree of pliancy, he can become as a (tender) babe. — Lao-Tzu

A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world. — Alexander Smith

I wanted to reach out and stroke her, to be gentle and tender towards her. Take care of her. — James Lusarde

In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense. — Abdu'l- Baha

Then, eyes closed, she brushed the smooth side of it soft across her lips. It was a tender, thoughtful motion. It was nothing like a kiss. — Patrick Rothfuss

Again, I tried to not let it bother me, but the ego is frail, fragile tender thing. — S.C. Stephens

The most important medicine is tender love and care. — Mother Teresa

The tender breeze felt my loneliness. It brought me your fragrance. — Avijeet Das

O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each,
That bright and fierce and fickle is the South,
And dark and true and tender is the North. — Alfred Tennyson

Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere. — Christian Nestell Bovee

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. — Aaron Eckhart

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. — George Santayana

If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life. — Gwendoline Christie

Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly. — Richard Cecil

Thank God for his loving kindness and tender mercies. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive. — Jeff Buckley

Her tender feet felt as if cut with sharp knives, but she cared not for it; a sharper pang had pierced through her heart. — Hans Christian Andersen

Needless to say, playing these things hurt, but it was a hurt like tender fingers on lute strings. I bled a bit and hoped that I would callous soon. — Patrick Rothfuss

The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart. — James Joyce

I want to discover the deeper layers of His word, understand the tender mercies of His heart. — Rachel Hauck

But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity. — B.F. Skinner

There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. — W.C. Fields

For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, — Kahlil Gibran

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years. — Juvenal

I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied. — Louisa May Alcott

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment. — Stephen Covey

He was so tender, so infinitely soothing, she longed to stay in his arms forever. With such strong arms about her, surely nothing could harm her. — Margaret Mitchell

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. — Ouida

Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless. — Nelson Mandela

Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above. — Lao-Tzu

I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ... — John Geddes

Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Give me, instead of beauty's bust,
A tender heart, a loyal mind,
Which with temptation I could trust,
Yet never linked with error find. — George Darley

I've learned ... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them. — Andy Rooney

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn,
Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute,
Are half so sweet as tender human words. — Bryan Procter

I follow Jesus not because I don't have any doubts. I follow Jesus because in my doubt, He has always been tender with me. — Jonathan Martin

My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. — William Shakespeare

Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero. — Michael Cera

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. — Robert Frost

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name? — James Joyce

My heart holds the world in tender awe. — Julia Cameron

I love you, Tella."

"I know you do." Tella looked up with an indescribably tender expression. "I wouldn't be here if you didn't. — Stephanie Garber

God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. — Richard J. Foster

Come, take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for you, fat as young quails; for mercy's sake eat them!' The — Jacob Grimm

He is a unicorn. I want to gently capture him and bring him back to my lab for research. — Amanda Mosher

Already with thee! tender is the night ...
But here there is no light ... — John Keats

Many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great. — Sarah Josepha Hale

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour. — Julia Margaret Cameron

The perception of what is small is (the secret of clear- sightedness; the guarding of what is soft and tender is (the secret of) strength. — Lao-Tzu

That's going to be your trouble - judgment about yourself.
(Tender is the Night) — F Scott Fitzgerald

Truly?" His face held such a tender look. It made her heart trip over itself. — Melanie Dickerson

there have been mornings
so quiet and tender
like a poem, on Thursday's lips
that I wondered
if I'd been kissed at all... — Sanober Khan

He met each newly exposed piece of flesh with a tender kiss, remembering how he'd dreamed of doing exactly this on the very first night he'd seen her. — Nicki Elson

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce. — Gretel Ehrlich

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life. — Madame De Stael

Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference. — Martha Ostenso

Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory. — James Joyce

Hugging makes a tender heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. — Ralph Fiennes

But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender. — Benedict Freedman

It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it. — Louise Bogan

When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches. — Alain De Botton

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells ... Easy to crush. — Melissa Marr

Soundlessly, and without fuss, some tender thing deep inside me broke. Something that, until then, I hadn't even realized was there. — Han Kang

There Kelvin proved himself such a prodigy that he was admitted to Glasgow University at the exceedingly tender age of ten. — Bill Bryson

Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom. — Mahatma Gandhi

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. — Marcel Proust

I would be tender as the night that covers up your foolishness and mine. — Jeanette Winterson

Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing? — Marc Chagall

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me. — Jules Verne

Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode. — Dorianne Laux

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise. — Norman Mailer

The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. - Psalm 145:9 KJV — Lynn Coulter

Tender," she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury. — Brenna Yovanoff

Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety. — Martin Luther

Young girls and mass murders are tender hearted creatures — Pierre Lemaitre

Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfill. For my darling, I love you, and I always will. — Elvis Presley

Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, for they will feed you delicious morsels that they may later feast upon your tender flesh. — Michele Faison

I ... Kisss the tender inward of thy hand. — William Shakespeare

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come. — Frances Mayes

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York. — Vera Farmiga

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. — Ruth Graham

A woman who would make his dreams hers and allow him to be part of hers. One who was kind and gentle. Loving and tender. Sensible. — Debbie Macomber