Tender Quotes

705 Tender quotes by 522 unique authors

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but… — David Attenborough
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… — Honore de Balzac
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. — Henry Ward Beecher
Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. — Isabelle Adjani
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. — Josh Billings
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more… — Christian Nestell Bovee
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of… — George Washington Carver
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… — Agatha Christie
Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic. — Chuck Close
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the… — Harlan Coben
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… — Chris Van Allsburg
Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus… — Laozi
Look how fears have presented themselves, so have supports and encouragements; yea, when I have started, even as it were at nothing else but my… — John Bunyan
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,… — Thomas Paine
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that… — Johann Gottfried Herder
The Infinate has sowed His name in the heavens in burning stars, but on earth He has sowed His name in tender flowers. — Jean Paul
No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers. — Edwin Arnold
When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars look on the… — Unknown Author
True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root. — May Sarton
Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all… — Martin Luther
Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and… — Laozi
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses. — Unknown Author
Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness. — Elizabeth Bowen
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame. — Ugo Betti

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