As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me. George Müller
It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living. Dean Koontz
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. John Keats
I...had strong feelings excited in my mind against Scotland generally (always expressly making great exceptions) by observing that the scoundrelly "feelosofers”, who preached up a doctrine, tending to cause the people of England to be treated like cattle. William Cobbett
Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce. Thomas Friedman