Tough And Tender Quotes

#1. An oxymoronic combination of the tough and tender, [Of Mice and Men] will appeal to sentimental cynics, cynical sentimentalists ... Readers less easily thrown off their trolley will still prefer Hans Andersen.
[Time 1937]

Time-Life Books

#2. God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man.

Darrin Patrick

#3. Fathers need to be tough and tender ... you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.

Mark Driscoll

#4. A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have.

Wayde Goodall

#5. America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by their own hands. To overpower its tender spirits makes America feel tough. Careers are generally short.

Martin Amis

#6. Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance while remaining manly. He perfected the role of the Tender Tough Guy and passed it on to several generations of Americans. Before him, that archetype did not exist in American popular culture.

Pete Hamill

#7. Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

Peter Kreeft

#8. There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

W.C. Fields

#9. Rachael Sage is a marvelous young artist- and I am a fan!! 'Haunted by You' has a beauty that shines through her lyrics and melodies
poignant, tender and tough. These are stories from the heart that will lift you up and carry you to places you had never dreamed.

Judy Collins

#10. Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Ruth Graham

#11. We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. She was another tough-as-nails, tender-as-kittens, feminist bitch.

Gayle Forman

#13. Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate; when dead they become withered and dry. Therefore it is said: the hard and tough are parts of death; the soft and tender are parts of life.

Laozi

#14. It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

Frank Perdue

#15. The soul is both fragile and resilient...The artisan soul must be both tender and tough.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#16. With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#17. I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.

Mr. T

#18. I can't say I have any confidence in confidence. I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough.

Jan Karon

#19. Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

Edgar Allan Poe

#20. My own favorite way to cook and eat razor clams is to simply dredge them in a mix of seasoned flour and cornmeal, then pan fry them in butter until crisp and golden. Be careful not to overcook them so they stay tender, not tough and chewy.

Tom Douglas

#21. (We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage the heart.

Thomas J. Sergiovanni

#22. Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

Maya Angelou

#23. The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.

Maya Angelou

#24. Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.

Jesse Jackson