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

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us the love of Black women for each other.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

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

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.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist two plumbers and a bartender.

I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender.

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

She felt like a chess player who by the clever handling of his pieces sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

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

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional they are sceptical and mystical they are romantic and ironic they are cruel and tender and full of mirth and despair.

I have tender romantic associations with upstate New York.

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

When I approach a child he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Gardeners are good at nurturing and they have a great quality of patience they're tender. They have to be persistent.

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers ' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.