Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue,… — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“When a soothing wind blows gently love through the thistledown of expectations, hope may inveigle the future for timeless care and tenderness… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
We need to be tender and willing to show compassion for others, but also have the strength to confront situations that require… — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande — Nathaniel Dorsky Copy Share Image
The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century called true And, for some… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders. — Pamela Frankau Copy Share Image
“He danced the way he made love, with passion and tenderness and spirit, communicating with hands and eyes the most subtle messages,… — Ruth Wind Copy Share Image
Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“You can’t count a hundred years on your own, of course. But there are two of us. If we each count fifty… — Takuya Asakura Copy Share Image
The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our… — Leontyne Price Copy Share Image
