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He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender. -- Gabrielle Zevin
Tender pauses speak The overflow of gladness, When words are all too weak. -- William C. Bryant
Tender as a mothers love... And with my mother, that was certainly true. -- Bob Ross
Tender EmberBarred and brandedto be forever unlovedI was a tender emberseeking solace from above -- Muse
I heard from my cat's lawyer today; my cat wants $12,000 a week for Tender Vittles. -- Johnny Carson
Tender Ember...Barred and brandedto be forever unlovedI was a tender emberseeking solace from above... -- Muse
Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones. -- Frederick Tennyson
My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work. -- Ellen Barkin
Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling. -- Sri Yukteswar Giri
Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind. -- Clarence Day
At this point, a spaceship could land on Main Street and Elvis could saunter out singing "Love Me Tender," and I wouldn't be surprised -- Michele Bardsley
Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them. -- Howard W. Hunter
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record. -- Zac Brown
Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary. -- Robert Crais
Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall to earth and grow green all over the world. -- Rumi
Tender and sweet, Manila clams partner well with a wide variety of foods - white wine, sake, beer, butter, leeks, fresh herbs, roasted peppers, olives, and wild mushrooms, to name a few. -- Tom Douglas
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 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
Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality. -- David Nicholls
Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined. -- Bruce Beresford
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? -- Ayumi Hamasaki
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. -- Voltaire
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust. -- Alan Rickman
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. -- Henry Ward Beecher
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. -- Robert Frost
No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough. -- Guy Fieri
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. -- Mo Udall
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. -- Ouida
I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way. -- Liam Gallagher
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too. -- Harlan Coben
To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart. -- Rebecca Solnit
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. -- David Attenborough
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. -- Christina Rossetti
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
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
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. -- Audre Lorde
The best word to describe my father? Thoughtful. There was a tender quality to Dad that his sense of fun could sometimes mask. But, above all, he was sensitive and looked out for those he loved. -- Jennifer Grant
Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding. -- Tom Hiddleston
I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough. -- Mr. T
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. -- George Washington Carver
She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited. -- Kate Chopin
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. -- Henri Nouwen
Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
I still find it interesting that there could be a point between a young guy and a girl when they decide to hold hands as they walk down the block. At some point, they decide to make the leap from pushing and insulting each other to doing something tender and possessive and showing the world that. -- Amy Heckerling
It is a holy blessing to be born with the exquisite qualities of a daughter of God. Women of God, both old and young, are spiritual and sensitive, tender and gentle. They have a kind, nurturing nature. This is your inheritance. Never belittle the gifts God has given to you. Develop the divinity that is within you. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
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Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses. -- Ovid
Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove. -- Horace
Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. -- Claudius Claudianus
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural. -- Roland Barthes
Let us welcome each other with tender love. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
May the Lord grant you tender kind heart. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
My heart holds the world in tender awe. -- Julia Cameron
Maybe we should be a little bit more tender-hearted. -- Van Jones
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. -- Arundhati Roy
I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York. -- Vera Farmiga
Appreciation is the legal tender that all souls enjoy. -- Dale Carnegie
Thank God for his loving kindness and tender mercies. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human. -- Jacquelyn Mitchard
May the Lord grant you a tender kind heart. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The most important medicine is tender love and care. -- Mother Teresa
Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go. -- Elvis Presley
There are few things so tender as a man's dignity. -- Robin Hobb
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. -- Voltaire
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. -- Ruth Graham
No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers. -- Edwin Arnold
Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies! -- John Keats
Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine. -- Julian Barnes
Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly. -- Richard Cecil
The tender Mercy of God has given us one another. -- Catherine McAuley
It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken. -- Frank Perdue
His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion. -- Dwight L. Moody
Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae. -- Koren Zailckas
Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion. -- Thomas Jefferson
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring. -- Bayard Taylor
A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn. -- Peter Thomson
Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. -- John Sheffield
With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it. -- William Shakespeare
Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing? -- Marc Chagall
Gently guide the tender vine else it become wild, tangled and impossible. -- Kathryn Hall
Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender. -- Garrison Keillor
Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender. -- Laurie Anderson
A simple smile, a tender touch, speaks the true language of love. -- Dan Fogelberg
From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. -- Washington Irving
If no tender words are spoken, no tender hearts can be broken. -- Kim Kardashian
And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
It's poetry in motion, when she turned her tender eyes to me. -- Thomas Dolby
From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour. -- Julia Margaret Cameron
From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, -- Julia Margaret Cameron
Even the smallest tender mercy can bring peace when recognized and appreciated. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely. -- R. C. Sproul
Already with thee! tender is the night. . . But here there is no light. . . -- John Keats
[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs. -- Bob Dylan
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment. -- Jean Rhys
I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree. -- Dolly Parton
Yesterday is past. Tomorrow is only a promise. Only today is legal tender. -- Venita VanCaspel
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray. -- William Wordsworth
No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery. -- William Shakespeare
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender. -- Billy Joel
Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero. -- Michael Cera
It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender. -- Jenny Holzer
If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender. -- Thomas Jefferson
Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise. -- Norman Mailer
Some people do not eat cow meat. I do so, provided it's tender. -- Yajnavalkya
I'm going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. -- Jackson Browne
I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles. -- Rod Taylor
The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty. -- Salmon P. Chase
Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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