Tender Quotes

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

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.

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

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

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.

People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music.

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.