Tenderness Quotes

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

Tenderness is a virtue.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.