Famous quotes containing the word tender:
“But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear as plainly in the infringement as in the observance, and our lives are sustained by a nearly equal expense of virtue of some kind. The decaying tree, while yet it lives, demands sun, wind, and rain no less than the green one. It secretes sap and performs the functions of health. If we choose, we may study the alburnum only. The gnarled stump has as tender a bud as the sapling.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?””
—William Blake (1757–1827)