#tender

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#father #get #great #having #joy

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#ended #hoping #i #joined #navy

Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.' ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#beat #god #i #know #make

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#am #authority #bbc #british #chairman

Tenderness is a virtue. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#virtue

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. ↗

— George Eliot

#death #never #our #repent #severity

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

— Ralph Fiennes

#good #great #nurturing #patience #persistent

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn. ↗

— Peter Thomson

#sensitive #tender #ton #touch #worth

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. ↗

— Voltaire

#hell #made #paradise #tender

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. ↗

— Alice Walker

#because #been #believe #child #delay