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Quotes About Tender

The brands that you can put on children's pajamas, ones that give moms a feeling of warmth and comfort, are in short supply.
~ Haim Saban
Around us the darkness hovered tenderly. We passed through it.
~ Rachel Hartman
I want to discover the deeper layers of His word, understand the tender mercies of His heart.
~ Rachel Hauck
Sand is a way of life for an oyster. If you are soft and tender and must live on the sandy floor of the ocean, making pearls becomes a necessity if you are to live well.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
~ Ralph Fiennes
The DARRYL part of him that exploded on stage made its spellbinding, turbulent presence most felt off stage when we made love. He was a symphony of contradiction; tender, yet fierce; sweet, yet riotous; impassioned, yet leisurely; giving, yet unquenchable. We lay there naked on the carpet a long time afterward, both too depleted—and too content—to move.
~ Raynetta Manees
I am surprisingly very sensitive.
~ Nicole Byer
There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine.
~ Julian Barnes
Roland sat beside his little sister. You are too young to know this, but love cannot grow in rocky soil. It must be planted in a tender heart, cared for with the gentlest of touches, warmed with happiness. and protected from all that might wish to harm it. That sounds like a lot of work, Melisandre said. It is a lot of work. But if it's true love, then it will be the lightest burden you'll ever carry.
~ Karen Hawkins
Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.
~ Alice Meynell
I worked a lot with Mark Frankel, and he was really just an incredibly tender soul. He liked his hair just so and his suit. He was a good-looking man, and he cared about looking together.
~ Brigid Brannagh
Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.
~ Gloria Steinem
Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.
~ Richard Whately
The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.
~ Honore de Balzac
Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
~ Paul Harris
As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
~ Alan Greenspan
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
~ Samuel Daniel
I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.
~ Sid Vicious
For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
~ Paula Cole
I am a demonstrative man, a baby picker-upper, a hugger and a kisser--that's my nature.
~ John Wayne
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
~ Juvenal
By nature I am not tough, believe it or not.
~ Jennifer Lopez
From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.
~ James Lileks