Quotes About Nurturing

To have children is to plant roses, muguets, lavender, lilac, gardenia, stock, peonies, tuberose, hyacinth ...it is to achieve a whole sense,a grand sense one did not priorly know. It is to give one's garden another dimension. Perfume of life itself.

Perhaps we're all doomed to fail as mothers, but if so, it's better to err on the side of showing too much love, not too little.

You will see: women are weak, but mothers are strong.

How could you live without human touch? Wasn't that the first thing you knew, when you came into the world and they laid you on your mother's belly? Her hand would come across and stroke your back, and cup your head, and she would smile through tears of exhaustion and wonderment. That touch of love would be the very first thing for you.

In that moment, Emily had desperately wanted her baby to be all right. Not out of duty. A child wasn't only a responsibility. It was an opportunity to love someone the way that she had never been loved. And for the first time in this whole shameful, humiliating, helpless process, Emily Vaughn knew without a doubt that she loved this baby.

This seemed to be how dads taught their boys to be men, but there had to be a point, maybe early on, when they were able to hold their hands. One tiny one engulfed by one big one.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the head when he sends them off to their day.

Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

In today's world, both men and woman need motherhood, the nurturing motherly feeling, the feminine energy. By receiving this energy, it will make them independent and free.

My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.

Children need adult men in their lives.

Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.

When he is sick, every man wants his mother.

I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

My mom and dad gave me everything they could have given me.