#tender

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. ↗

— John Adams

#dare #kindly #knowledge #let us #means

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#bartender #college #dad #fifth #go

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

#car #conscience #could #driving #environmentalist

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. ↗

— Jane Austen

#equal #heart #tenderness

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. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#fears #hour #joys #life #long

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#hooked #passion #pleasure #soft #tender

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#important #important things #kindness #most #tenderness

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

#australia #australian #budget #budget film #combined

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

#anyone #bread #honesty #honesty is #lawful

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#bartender #book #critic #drunk #good