Quotes About Nurturing

Nazareth wasted no time in anything she did, and years of experience with her brood of nine had given her a firm way of bustling another person along that was impressive even to a professional nurse who did professional person-bustling.

For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you're doing something good.

There's a new Mozart, a new Miles Davis, a new Misty Copeland, a new Matisse potentially languishing in a math class somewhere. If we fail to introduce them to art, we fail humanity.

The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't care for myself. James saved my life.

My mother carried me for 10 months. I asked her 'Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn't make me a beautiful face?' and mother told me, 'My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.'

My first son didn't really take a bottle, and I didn't like giving bottles.

Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.

My mom is a lioness. From bringing us up to getting work done, she has everything sorted for the family. If it wasn't for my mother, I don't think our family could have stuck by each other.

I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children.

Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.

The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it.

We can all benefit by learning to express and meet out physical needs in a loving, caressing and compassionate way

If the world is so cruel you are frightened of it, I will hold you, and protect you, and teach it to love you as I already love you.

Good food, fresh water, and an occasional sweet and someone to care for. That's what everyone should have. A simplistic and unrealistic view I knew, but it soothed me.

True biblical love is sacrificing, purifying, nurturing, and enduring.

If I were asked to define Motherhood. I would have defined it as Love in its purest form. Unconditional Love. ~~ Revathi Sankaran

Patience is a virtue, just like parenting. We aren't born as parents, we learn how to be patent through our kids. From those lessons comes the wisdom to be patient!

The most important thing I can do for my children is to protect them and to teach them. After that, it's up to them to be and do their best in life.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love.

If a child is loved, he feels worthy of love in the future

Grandparents are extremely rich folks with silver in their hair and gold in their hearts.

Do you think just having a baby automatically makes you love it?''I'm not sure... you might have to learn to love it, like any other person.

It should be recognized as a crime (in reality it is a crime of the worst nature), for any parent to build inferiority complexes in the mind of a child, through unnecessary criticism.