Quotes About Gentle

It seemed as if she went through life touching it scarcely at all

The minister wore a light blue, three-piece suit, an obvious hairpiece, and a gold wedding band. No watch. No other jewelry. Nothing ostentatious. His face was gentle, trusting—the face of a dear uncle or friendly neighbor. His bright smile, one of his biggest assets, was firmly set. "Thank

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all.

I have this tough exterior, but inside, I'm very mushy and soft.

Rajiv was a very gentle and extremely jovial person. It is so tough to believe that he is gone.

I think mothers get a raw deal in American culture, so I've been defending them. I have three daughters, and I know that as they become mothers, they got a lot more gentle towards me!

A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.

Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.

Now let me hear some details about dogs and lake." He gave her an account of the night. She listened attentively, though her knitting needles never stopped clicking. He loved that gentle, rhythmic sound. Although . . . perhaps that was simply because it waseasier to admit that he loved the sound rather than that he loved the woman.

He'd had a need to be gentle, had wanted this to be slow and lazy, as though something sweet and easy could take away the misery of the day. It wasn't quite the sweet and tender seduction he'd hoped for, but as the climax rushed up on them, claiming them both hard and demanding, as she rested her forehead to his, their gazes locked, her mouth seeking out his … everything else fell away. In those moments, nothing else existed but each other.

Indeed, a parallel history of Europe could be written which viewed family life and regular work as the essential Continental motor of civilization. Then war and revolution would need to be seen by historians as startling, sick departures from that norm of a kind that require serious explanation, rather than viewing periods of gentle introversy as mere tiresome interludes before the next thrill-packed bloodbath.

Thou were the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.

Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty.

Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh; she gives and she takes.

Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the wolf.

Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

Fair Katherine, and most fair, Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms Such as will enter at a lady's ear, And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?

I loved her as the sun loves the flower: ever-present, nourishingly, and gently.

the Indians were far too gentle, too peaceable, positively childlike. They squatted for whole evenings in their white straw hats on the earth, motionless as toadstools, content without light, silent. The sun and moon were enough light for them, an effeminate race, eerie but innocuous.