Tender Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

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

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.

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

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

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