Tender Quotes - page 3

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring. View quote
Bayard Taylor
For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender. View quote
Umar
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play of the mind is perhaps the only form of play that is not looked upon with the most tender indulgence. His piety is likely to seem nettlesome, if not actually dangerous. And neither quality is considered to contribute very much to the practical business of life. View quote
Richard Hofstadter
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years. View quote
A. Scott Berg
No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come. View quote
Frances Mayes
I love you, man. You rule! Thanks for the food. It touches me deep in my tender place. (Sway) I don't want to know nothing about your tender place, you freak. (Devyn) (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness. View quote
David Levithan
Angel raised her hand. "Excuse me. What does LTC stand for?" She blinked innocently. "Loving Tender Care?"Gazzy suggested. If our instructor had had lasers for eyes, he would have sliced Gazzy in half. "Lieutenant colonel," he sputtered. View quote
James Patterson
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment. View quote
Jean Rhys
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust. View quote
Alan Rickman
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 again at Christmastime. View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder
I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories. View quote
Lisa Marie Presley
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. View quote
Aaron Eckhart
The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears. View quote
Charles Simeon
It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken. View quote
Frank Perdue
It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does. (George Wald)
Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers. View quote
Ida Lupino
When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth. View quote
Joseph Mitchell
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. View quote
Lawrence G. Lovasik
It is a holy blessing to be born with the exquisite qualities of a daughter of God. Women of God, both old and young, are spiritual and sensitive, tender and gentle. They have a kind, nurturing nature. This is your inheritance. Never belittle the gifts God has given to you. Develop the divinity that is within you. View quote
Margaret D. Nadauld