#tender

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#brutality #could #kindliness #laugh #mix

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing. ↗

— Don Marquis

#bartender #before #by the time #drink #else

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness. ↗

— Rollo May

#does #human #matter #something #source

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#always #begins #bunch #first #first love

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax. ↗

— Whitey Herzog

#babe ruth #contender #just #koufax #need

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. ↗

— Washington Irving

#distant #falls #friends #heart #like

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#bartender #class #clerk #dad #financial

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#because #been #big #clerk #dad

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. ↗

— George Santayana

#bid #divine #faith #heart #led

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#full #joys #often #only #our