Quotes About Nurturing

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories... that they're there and they want to be told.

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears.

People of a certain age still remember me as Edna Garrett. They often want to give me a hug because the character was so warm and nurturing. I don't mind at all. I think it's very nice.

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?

Eric and I have a pact. Offseason, we focus on my career. And during the season, I try to be the best wifey. I make sure he has a warm dinner to come home to.

I believe in one energy that is benign, loving, warm and nurturing power.

Is that what we think of women when they have a baby? That they're nurturing and warm, but if they haven't got children they aren't? I find that really offensive.

People warned us that if we went to them whenever they cried and refused to spank them, we would harm them irrevocably, but we decided there's simply no way to spoil a child. After all, they aren't apples.

What's a mother for but to be blamed?

a woman with young children is not a woman but a mammal, salve, croon, water carrier

But presently, huddled beneath the blankets, the child would be soothed by a warm sense of safety, and her nerves would relax, while her body grew limp with the drowsy softness of bed. Then suddently a big and most comforting yawn, and another, and another, until darkness and Collins and tall clocks that menaced, and Stephen herself, were all blended and merged into something quite friendly, a harmonious whole, neither fearful or doubting-the blessed illusion we call sleep.

Every child deserved to grow up in a home filled with warmth and love, not strict rules and harsh discipline.

Charlie gave Jacques a tentative pat or two as if he hadn't been around animals very often. Too bad, she thought. In her experience, kids were generally a little more responsible and a little less self-absorbed if they had another creature depending on them.

Parenting is a process of mutual growth, during which parents and children grow on different levels through their interactions and through the elements they bring into one another's lives.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

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

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

If you're going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

a parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams.

My calling was to be a mom.

I got my calmness from my mum.

Growing up without love, without being cared for, might be the worst type of poverty.