Quotes About Nurturing

If you're lucky enough to come from, I was very lucky when I grew up, I grew up in a house fill of love, my mum and dad had no problem showing love in front of me, which I think is why I want to teach my kids how to love.

Ecco che senso ha stare insieme. Tu hai un certo potenziale. E io sono qui per farlo emergere.»

As mothers, we are building great cathedrals. We cannot be seen if we're doing it right. And one day, it is very possible that the world will marvel, not only at what we have built, but at the beauty that has been added to the world by the sacrifices of invisible women.

teaching should not be compared to filling a bottle with water but rather to helping a flower to grow in its own way.

Mothers do, every day. It's funny, Bo, how a woman can bring two children into the world, raise them up the same way—the same rules and values, indulgences and disciplines. And still two separate people come out of it all.

It's different with a parent, isn't it? They have to consider constantly whether to say yes or no, now or later. They have to discipline and enforce as well as love and tend. You'll only have to love, and they'll soak all that up like sponges.

Grandmothers are designed to fuss over their grandchildren. It makes us happy. Don't you want me to be happy?

Perhaps it was the demands of having to take on me and the farm that left so little time for the gentler things. Such small things: a kiss goodnight, a word of affection... a child can starve with a full plate.

She's a generous mother who offers all we need, and she's a child who needs our tending and care.

You'll be a boon to those grandchildren." "Will I?" "Oh, you will. You'll be patient with them, and sincerely interested in their doings and their thoughts. It's different with a parent, isn't it? They have to consider constantly whether to say yes or no, now or later. They have to discipline and enforce as well as love and tend. You'll only have to love, and they'll soak all that up like sponges.

Children give a house its personality, you know, more than its decorating. They leave their mark on it.

It takes a lot of shit to grow flowers

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

Scratching Yogi's ears Michelle says 'That's just part of his job, the comforting. That's what I mean by the bhatisvata. That he's more concerned with comforting and helping, even more than his own well-being. This is a trait that more people should encompass.

As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together.

People in love -with nurturing, attentive non-movie-star parents- they would never invent gravity. Nothing except deep misery leads to real success.

I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the parent who never wants you to really grow up.

Rumsey closed with an appeal for nurturing the artistic temperament in young and old alike, "to stoke that Apollonian ember in all mortal beings.

so that it may grow fatter and

Knitting her reddish-brown hairy stocking, with her head outlined absurdly by the gilt frame, the green shawl which she had tossed over the edge of the frame, and the authenticated masterpiece by Michael Angelo, Mrs. Ramsay smoothed out what had been harsh in her manner a moment before, raised his head, and kissed her little boy on the forehead. Let us find another picture to cut out, she said.

I appeal to parents: never, never say, Hurry up, to a child. (62)

The emphasis—and money—placed on demonstrating "merit" on applications, rather than on nurturing a student's potential during the college years, results in institutions that lack meaningful race and class diversity.

I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.