Tender Quotes

Love is space and time made tender to the heart. (Marcel Proust)
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. View quote
Peter Ustinov
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other. View quote
Audre Lorde
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? View quote
Walt Whitman
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well To bear too tender, or too firm a heart To act a lover's or a Roman's part Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die. View quote
Alexander Pope
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage. View quote
Alexander Pope
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist. View quote
Robert Browning
One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray. (William Wordsworth)
Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love. View quote
William Wordsworth
A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same stamp on all the arts, and an intercourse between all studies, and so they more readily comprehend them all. View quote
Vitruvius
Is love a tender thing It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous and it pricks like thorn. View quote
William Shakespeare
The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. View quote
Brit Hume
Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers! View quote
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Behold a silly tender babe, In freezing winter night, In homely manger trembling lies; Alas! a piteous sight. View quote
Robert Southwell
We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Each human being has the eternal duty of transforming what is hard and brutal into a subtle and tender offering, what is crude into refinement, what is ugly into beauty, ignorance into knowledge, confrontation into collaboration, thereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love. (Yehudi Menuhin)
Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving. View quote
David Attenborough
It was not coincidental that we chose what's left If the universe has a will I think we are part of it Tender and precious How many times have I searched for something Found and lost it Since then? View quote
Ayumi Hamasaki
women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible and live long lives. View quote
Maya Angelou