#tender

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#apex #back #bar #bartender #boom

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice. ↗

— Horace

#keeps #minds #often #others #tender

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#arms #children #made #mother #sleep

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#done #film #i #legacy #like

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they? ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#black-and-white #films #frank #frank sinatra #guys

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#depends #going #hear #hendrix #i

My father couldn't warm my frozen hands. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#hurt #love #shatter-me #tenderness #love

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers. ↗

— Ida Lupino

#i #nothing #path #playing #set

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#beautiful #benign #beyond #brilliant #fame

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. ↗