Tender Quotes

705 Tender quotes by 522 unique authors

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned… — Walt Whitman
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender… — Frans de Waal
The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well. — Chogyam Trungpa
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of… — Henri Nouwen
A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits… — Mark Twain
I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm… — Annie Proulx
Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name? — James Joyce
She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between… — Orson Scott Card
We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That… — Maria Montessori
I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of… — Vladimir Nabokov
I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce. — Gretel Ehrlich
Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You… — Anne Lamott
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician,… — Khalil Gibran
. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a… — Sara Zarr
From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal?Â…Betrayal means breaking ranks… — Milan Kundera
Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come. — Frances Mayes
To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts —… — Charlotte Bronte
But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing… — Benedict Freedman
It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken. — Steve Almond
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things… — Michael Ondaatje
But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow… — Vladimir Nabokov
America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by… — Martin Amis
Q: What were you thinking when your colleagues were out there making cosmic history? A: I just kept reminding myself that every single component in… — Michael Collins

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