Quotes About Gentle

I like my girls delicate.

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

They say there's nothing inside but emptiness,' Maureen told me later. I made no comment, but filled in by kissing her hair or something of the kind. Maureen had at that time rather droopy hair, possibly owing to lack of vitamins during the war, which she kept off her brow with a big tortoiseshell slide. Her brow was really beautiful, and so were her eyes. They had that gentle look of being unequal to life, which, as I later realised, always attracts me in a woman.

Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greetTo think how monie counsels sweet,How monie lengthened, sage advices,The husband frae the wife despises.

Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes,Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream,Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.

There is a convalescent quality to our friendship nowadays, as we tiptoe gently through the garden where our old hatred lies buried.

I was finally relaxing, winding down, and becoming more in sync with the slow gentle pace of this beautiful island paradise, surrounded by the crystal blue waters of the Pacific Ocean.

More of a moonbeam than a sunbeam

San Francisco, September 13, 1915 Don't buy the horse unless you are sure it is gentle. I do not want you hurt while I am gone or any other time for that matter.

This year the teacher was a slim, pale young man. His name was Mr. Corse. He was gentle and patient, and never whipped little boys because they forgot how to spell a word. Almanzo

There was no public to humiliate him here. They already knew he was a lunatic. They expected it. He could burst into howls of insanity, and they would only smile those gentle smiles at him and wrestle him into the chains.

Let love therefore be what it will, my Uncle Toby fell into it—And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst thou: For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman.

I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy or maybe a girl with gentle lips and strong hands.

was horrified too at the banality of her dancing, which was bad beyond measure; yet watching her make those gentle and ineffectual movements of her slim hands and feet (the air of a gazelle harnessed to a water-wheel)

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

Oh, sunshine, I whisper and smile gently. Haven't you figured out that I'm completely in love with you?

Walk soft, like whispers.

I nod. It's the gentle class with the other septuagenarians, but I don't mention that.

Tsultrim Tso, who possessed all the characteristics of a dakini, like gentle behavior and immense compassion for others,

Love is like a butterfly As soft and gentle as a sigh The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings Love makes your heart feel strange inside It flutters like soft wings in flight Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing

Siate gentili a parole, ma portatevi dietro un grosso candelotto di dinamite!

Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

I am just one of many many thousands of midwives, who are devoted to saving lives gently.