“I have never seen her face – yet she holds my heart with both hands.” — Jetta L. Leoth Copy Share Image
“The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep profoundly.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus... We must pray… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
(We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage… — Thomas J. Sergiovanni Copy Share Image
What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night! — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Some people are like that: they are made of goodness, their every look spreads tenderness, and from their hands caresses fall all… — Patrick Chamoiseau Copy Share Image
“With no sense of the passing of time, they held each other and lost themselves in the opening, unmasking tenderness that always… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Tenderness from empaths will be used against them time and time again by psychological abusers.” — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Do you see that I cherish you beyond question, that you have nothing to prove to me? You are making your journey… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
“In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor,… — Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Copy Share Image
When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels… — David Hume Copy Share Image
She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Mom and dad are very special to me And because they love me dearly That is what makes them special, I wouldnt… — R_lovesyou Copy Share Image
The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands. — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton. — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you put a little bit of my love in your heart, every tenderness will have a meaning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
