Tender Quotes

705 Tender quotes by 522 unique authors

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the… — Louisa May Alcott
...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and… — Louisa May Alcott
Every time the phone rang, my heart jumped. Was it Alexander? And when it wasn't him my heart would break into a million pieces. It… — Ellen Schreiber
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing. — Barbara Kingsolver
There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. — W.C. Fields
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is… — Pema Chodron
Even though life may have moved wearily and painfully through such a person, they have still managed not to let it corrode their soul. In… — John O'Donohue
The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender… — Tana French
Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated… — James Joyce
Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless,… — Truman Capote
It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be to her that which only Jesus Christ Himself can be: always ready to forgive,… — Ruth Graham
No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which… — Rainer Maria Rilke
You saved me again," she told him with a starstruck gaze. He cupped her cheek and gave her a tender smile in the dark. "Because… — Gaelen Foley
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God… — Barbara Kingsolver
I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked… — Alice Munro
...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and… — Anne Lamott
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. — Khalil Gibran
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own… — Khalil Gibran
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is… — Unknown Author
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender… — Unknown Author
Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives, When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives, Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain, But… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Already with thee! tender is the night. . . But here there is no light. . . — John Keats

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