Tender

Famous quotes containing the word tender:

“Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,
And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.”
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931)

“I’m hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing hundreds of lambs, the she-dogs, until it seems the whole country rises to show me its tender sleeping young while I feel two hammer-blows here instead of the mouth of my child.”
—Federico García Lorca (1898–1936)

“Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things.
The honest thief, the tender murderer,
The superstitious atheist.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)