gentle handling Quotes

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

The first time I tried to put a new diaper on my baby, I yanked the little Velcro strap too jerkily and actually punched the little guy in the jaw. A real solid shot, too. I knew instinctively that this could not be correct. Unless you're specifically trying to raise a welterweight, continual deliverance of powerful uppercuts is not advised when handling newborns.

Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.

Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently and there are songs that are like scared birds that you have to sneak up on over the course of months in the woods.

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles.

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is.

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.

..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands

I bruise easily so be gentle when you handle me.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Gloves make you so much more delicate.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands.

We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

Don't bruise the Foo!

Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.