Quotes of: Tenderness Keyword

My love for artichokes comes from when I was very young. My mother and father would slice the hearts and fry them, and they would be crispy around the leaves and tender at the base.

Jose Andres Puerta

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Eleanor Roosevelt

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

Eudora Welty

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

Frederick Tennyson

It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.

Frans de Waal

If I open my mouth My word would be of love and hope Tenderness completing me from inside out

Chimnese Davids

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

David W. Earle

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

Desiderius Erasmus

Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

Juvenal

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Ugo Betti

where oh where, in what cemetery of the heavens do the tender words of lovers rest when they love no more? (Searching for author)

Love

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Josh Billings

Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.

Forever Odd

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

Bonjour tristesse

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...

L. Lionel Kendrick

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.

The Mother

How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.

Notebooks 1935-1942

Our tenderness, compassion and kindness go with sensitive generous heart that should not be abused by others.

Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul

I wanted to reach out and stroke her, to be gentle and tender towards her. Take care of her.

The Lady Loves to Strip