Quotes About Nurturing

We make wonderful babies," she said softly. "We're bringing good little people into the world who have a mom and a dad who care about them and love them. They know right from wrong because their parents teach them which is which, and because their parents live by example.

It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

FRED ROGERS ENTERED THE WORLD WITH A SERIOUS DISADVANTAGE, albeit a typical one: he was born a child.

it is arguable that the most molecular word in political discourse, the noun that denotes something on which all else depends and builds, is neither "justice" nor "freedom" nor "equality." It is "family." Without the nurturing and disciplining done in intact families, individuals are apt to be ill-equipped to exercise the freedom to become unequal, and therefore are handicapped in the pursuit of justice for themselves and others.

I have the idea that we grandmothers are meant to play the part of protective witches; we must watch over younger women, children, community and also, why not? this mistreated planet, the victim of such unrelenting desecration.

Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy....

Duplicó sus cuidados, la friccionaba con aceite de almendras dulces para evitar las estrías en la piel del vientre, le ponía miel de abejas en los pezones para que no se le agrietaran, le daba de comer cáscara molida de huevo para que tuviera buena leche y no se le picaran los dientes y le rezaba oraciones de Belén para el buen parto.

Al Califa de Bagdad ke hubiera gustado saber que las mujeres queremos amor antes que nada. Tenemos algo raro en el cerebro, una especie de tumor, que nos impulsa al amor. No podemos vivir sin amor. Por amor aguantamos a nuestros críos y a los hombres.

When you're a full-time mum, you're constantly in that zone and doing breastfeeding and having a lot of boredom, too!

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it.

Parenting, at its best, comes as naturally as laughter. It is automatic, involuntary, unconditional love.

I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.

When their children flourish, almost all mothers have a sense of well-being.

I'm very active with my kids, so even if I don't go to the gym, I'm lifting them in and out of the tub and out of their high chairs.