Gentle Quotes

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, and if I'm in the final cut in the summer theater, I'll be thrilled. If I'm not, well that's the way things go.

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Old #64 chose... a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?

I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.