Top 988 Tender Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls.

When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs.

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made.

We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail in birth, till Christ be formed in them. They should see that we care for no outward thing, neither liberty, nor honor, nor life, in comparison to their salvation... When the people see that you truly love them, they will hear anything from you...Oh therefore, see that you feel a tender love for your people in your hearts, and let them perceive it in your speech and conduct. Let them see that you spend and are spent for their sakes.

He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

Being twenty years old, I naturally had a wild imagination and a tender heart.

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.

The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important.

You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you.

It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid.

Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.

That's the miracle of babies, their ability to lay bare the tender, beating hearts of raging assholes.

Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.

No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.

No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.