Quotes About Gentleness

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Patiently, more gentle than rain, she made me clean, while I drifted, my eyes closed.

And kind. Yes, never forget kind. It's the cream in our porridge, the cinnamon in our strudel. That extra something that makes life wonderful.

Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. (Page 194.)

Working at King Henry's, and later at St Oswald's, I had always had to be tough on myself, and gentle on men. Men are so very fragile, Roy; so unused to being challenged.

Words spoken with good manners have reached a lot more hearts than words spoken sternly.

Being too bi...y will never make a girl look or sound beautiful, but being patient and mature does.

Youre a kind, kind soul for being patient with my crazy actions.

Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience

Make sure that when you give your heart away, it's to someone who has hands strong enough to hold it forever yet gentle enough to hold it without breaking it.

Make holding her hand too tight be the only way you can hurt her.

A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

A man's experienced palm makes any lady calm.

Hey, there, little fella!" he called. I looked at him uncertainly. What kind of a person was this? What would those hands be like? Would they push me aside, like the first man I had known? Or would they be patient and gentle? "You lost, fella? You lost?" I wasn't sure about the hands yet, but the voice was kind. And he was talking right to me. The first man had never done that. And he'd never kneeled down so that he was close to my level, either.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." - William Butler Yeats, He Wishes For The Cloth of Heaven.

To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-No Come play with me; Why should you run Through the shaking tree As though I'd a gun To strike you dead? When all I would do Is to scratch your head And let you go.

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.

Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

For us who are Christians, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is proof positive that love is stronger than hate, that life is stronger than death, that light is stronger than darkness, that laughter and joy, and compassion and gentleness and truth, all these are so much stronger than their ghastly counterparts.

make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force.

And may we not say confidently of man also, that he who is likely to be gentle to his friends and acquaintances, must by nature be a lover of wisdom and knowledge? That we may safely affirm. Then he who is to be a really good and noble guardian of the State will require to unite in himself philosophy and spirit and swiftness and strength? Undoubtedly. Then we have found the desired natures; and now that we have found them, how are they to be reared and educated?

Mon pauvre petit chou, you say, fanning her with a banana leaf. My poor little cabbage.

It began to feel almost benign, these calm days in the sun.