Quotes About Nurturing

Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.

I love teaching; I love little kids.

I just love kids. I always have.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

I love children. I've always loved children.

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

I absolutely love being a mother.

I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

If you treat your feelings with as much love as you treat your dog or your cat or your child you'll feel as if you were living in heaven.

Love can make the difference-love generously given in childhood and reaching through the awkward years of youth . . . and encouragement that is quick to compliment and slow to criticize.

...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.

I love kids and children, and I love being a mom.

I love being nurturing and caring because I love to see other people happy.

Ive always wanted to be a mom. I had a great relationship with mine. Im ready to pass on to my child all the great love that my mom had for me.

I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for my memories aged nought to ten are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun.

I love indoor plants. It makes any room feel open, fresh and homey. Keeping them alive is always a fun challenge for me!

Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't.

Parental nurturing was replaced with forced assimilation, hard physical labor, harsh discipline, and emotional, physical, and often sexual abuse.

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked; I felt this big, sorrowing man's head resting on me, as though it were that of the baby that some day may lie on my bosom, and I stroked his hair as though he were my own child. I never thought at the time how strange it all was.