Quotation Explorer - 'Tender'

Women prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal kind.
The words you speak today should be soft and tender. . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them. - Unknown
To be happy and beloved have a tender heart, blissful thoughts, and a non-judgmental mind. - Debasish Mridha
I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Gods tender mercies are over all His creatures. - Psalm 145 9
Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion. - Arthur Conan Doyle
where oh where, in what cemetery of the heavens do the tender words of lovers rest when they love no more? (Searching for author) - Unknown Author Searching
And that's the point! Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force strength power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their week ones. - Jill Lepore
How far you go in life depends onyour being tender with the young,compassionate with the aged,sympathetic with the striving andtolerant of the weak and strong.Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver
Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn. - William Shakespeare
The quail was tender, the potatoes smothered in butter, and the beans roasted in garlic. - Brian McClellan
I don’t want my ‘part’ taken! I haven’t ‘got’ a part! I hate the stupid geometrical figures by which people try to understand the emotions of others, imposing hard straight lines - or ‘sides’ as they call them - onto tender curvaceous human beings who have none. - Frances Partridge
Purge me from every sinful blot;My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought,From all the filth of self and pride.The hatred of the carnal mind Out of my flesh at once remove:Give me a tender heart, resigned, And pure, and full of faith and love. - John Wesley
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart - Alexander Pope
And that's the point; not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their week ones. - Jill Lepore
God softens harden heart into tender loving heart. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Nevertheless, likin' is a tender plant, and never thrives long when watered with tears. Let the 'arth around your married happiness be moistened by the dews of kindness. - James Fenimore Cooper
Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, for they will feed you delicious morsels that they may later feast upon your tender flesh. - Michele Faison
Polly ended her lesson with the words she lived by: man is tender by nature, the rest is invented. Everyone applauded, even Bernice who was relieved that it was finally over. - K. Ford K.
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 great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? - Walt Whitman
...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals... - Marquis de Sade
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. - John Sheffield
An old friend is like a tender memory or a comfortable shoe. It takes years of caring to get to that point. - Laura Moncur
Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them. - Desiderius Erasmus
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? - Eleanor Roosevelt
It is better to have a tender than harden human heart. - Lailah Gifty Akita
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 the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver
Love is an act of endless forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov
Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses - Ovid
I am satisfied-For the peace that has graciously engulfed my tender heart.I am home-Because of the abundance of love that I have given myself.I am enlightened-For the journey I have embarked in knowing my higher self.I am complete-Because I now realize that I was always whole. - Karen A. Baquiran
You are the grace of my life So tender, so undeserved Hard to believe you're my wife Even harder to put what I feel into words If I need evidence God is good Just looking at you is enough You are the grace of my life For you grace my life with your love - Brian Littrell
Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Mislaid flame of tender emotionsRekindled.Together we live to the point of tears,I wouldn’t want it any other way. - Scott Hastie
The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart. - James Joyce
Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Cultivate your craft. Water it daily, pour some tender loving care into it, and watch it grow. Remember that a plant doesn’t sprout immediately. Be patient, and know that in life you will reap what you sow. - J.B. McGee
Lorsque tu verras une bonneD'enfants, et non autre personne,Assise au milieu d'un tenderOu wagon de chemin de fer,Découvres-toi sur son passage,Salut à son noble visage !MoralitéA bonne en tender, salut. "(Fables de Joinville) - Alphonse Allais
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 never will be sung to us again,Is they remembrance. Now the hour of restHath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fine. The next time that my life is destroyed, I'll try to express my distress in a quieter fashion, far away from your tender sensibilities. - Colleen Houck Ren
There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength. - Saint Francis de Sales
It's beautiful when you realise how kind, tender, warm and big-hearted a person is that has suffered too much for their own good. - Diana Jaber
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. - Voltaire
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 which has been impressed on them in very tender years. - Agatha Christie
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 the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver
Not only is forgiveness the most tender part of love, it is always a choice and always accompanied by unconditional love. May you always be forgiving,kind and gracious, especially when others are undeserving. - Rhonda Louise Robbins
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 the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. - George Washington
Romance is a tender kiss with a lingering promise of more to come. - Tim Campbell
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 agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute - Jalaluddin Rumi
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