#tenderness

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #tenderness




Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.


Thomas de Quincey


#amongst #ashamed #breathing #cows #creatures

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.


Frederick William Robertson


#forgiveness #tenderness #win

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.


Brennan Manning


#gentleness #god #identity #love #self

And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And weird. And tender. I'm not used to tender. It's a fossil, that word. Conditions changed and it died out. Like the woolly mammoth. It just couldn't live in the same world as dick box. Ho dog. Or wiener cousins.


Jennifer Donnelly


#romance #tenderness #vulgarity #young-adult #young-love

You let me set the water in the shower, and followed me into the booth to stand there with me under the warm spray. You kept your head down, not looking me in the eyes—though if you were shy, I couldn’t tell. You had no reason to be. You know what you look like. I know you don’t remember what we did. I want to tell you.


Julio-Alexi Genao


#sex #tenderness #love

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.


Robert Bly


#tenderness #humans

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.


Norah Vincent


#gender-stereotypes #loss #maleness #masculinity #tenderness

Ако не беше толкова мил, толкова внимателен, тя отдавна щеше да го е оставила, много преди нещата да станат сериозни, но нежността му я обезоръжава и я задържа. Кадънс имаше нужда от тази нежност, защото дълго време бе живяла без нея.


Andrew Porter


#relationship #tenderness #relationship

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

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.


George Eliot


#death #great #never #our #repent