Tend

Famous quotes containing the word tend:

“Probably more than youngsters at any age, early adolescents expect the adults they care about to demonstrate the virtues they want demonstrated. They also tend to expect adults they admire to be absolutely perfect. When adults disappoint them, they can be critical and intolerant.”
—The Lions Clubs International and the Quest Nation. The Surprising Years, I, ch.4 (1985)

“... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

“Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)