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Quotes About Tender

But they became every day more ardent and tender. It was a passion that had frown with his growth...
~ Mary Shelley
Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
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.
~ Lisa Marie Presley
It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.
~ Voltaire
To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven.
~ Mother Teresa
Tender as a mothers love... And with my mother, that was certainly true.
~ Bob Ross
With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.
~ Heinrich Heine
Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
I'm a very romantic person.
~ Esai Morales
I can be cuddly. Corbin's voice dropped and his eyes were hooded. And tender, and gentle, and passionate.
~ Evangeline Anderson
I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.
~ Betty White
And he wrote a long letter, tenderly affectionate, full of phrases and circumlocutions, metaphors and similes, philosophy and academic gallantry; and I took on myself the responsibility of delivering it to the young woman.
~ Guy de Maupassant
put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
Put together all the tenderest love you know of dear reader the deepest you have ever felt and the strongest that has ever been poured out upon you and heap upon it all the love of all the loving human hearts in the world and then multiply it by infinity and you will begin perhaps to have some faint glimpses of what the love of God in Christ Jesus is. And this is grace.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.
~ Frank Perdue
I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all.
~ Tom Sizemore
My own favorite way to cook and eat razor clams is to simply dredge them in a mix of seasoned flour and cornmeal, then pan fry them in butter until crisp and golden. Be careful not to overcook them so they stay tender, not tough and chewy.
~ Tom Douglas
I'm overwhelmed by shame that the people who had the responsibility to take care of the tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain.
~ Pope Francis
Give me, instead of beauty's bust, A tender heart, a loyal mind, Which with temptation I could trust, Yet never linked with error find.
~ George Darley
She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender look in her eyes? Is she dreaming of me as she walks along the streets?
~ Sherwood Anderson
Life, the tomcat thought with uncommon sentiment, is not only challenging, wild sometimes, it can be tender, too. Warm and tender and good.
~ Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Men that look no farther than their outside, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I, that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared.
~ Mother Teresa
I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
~ Natasha Bedingfield