Tender Quotes
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Tender Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.
— Frederick Tennyson
RETURN TO TENDEROur 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
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
The most important medicine is tender love and care.
— Mother Teresa
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
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
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
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
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 groundWhile the tender and weak dance on the breeze above. — Lao-Tzu
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 standTo smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. — William Shakespeare
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
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
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 morningsso quiet and tender
like a poem, on Thursday's lips
that I wondered
if I'd been kissed at all... — Sanober Khan
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
— Vera Farmiga
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
— Ruth Graham
