Quotes About Nurturing

Bushes would pull in their sharp thorns and burst into flower when I watered them or loosened the earth around their roots. Squirrel-like creatures, their long white hair smooth as silk-thread, would scurry up to take berries from my palm.

My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.

I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. —HAROLD B. LEE

Know that the qualities you admire in others are the qualities you need to recognize and nurture inside yourself.

But shopping, cooking and housework must not be allowed to consume all of one parent's time. Both parents need precious time together with their child.

I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.

You Can't Spoil a Newborn Worried about spoiling your newborn by always responding so quickly to those cries? Don't be—it isn't possible to spoil a baby in the first 6 months. Responding promptly to crying won't make your baby more demanding—in fact, quite the opposite is true. The faster your newborn's needs are met, the more likely he or she is to grow into a more secure, less demanding child.

Der Mutterschoss ist keine Einbahnstraße.

I remember Mum repeatedly telling us we had good hearts and good brains. When she said that we'd say 'thanks' and it might have sounded as if we were thanking her for seeing us that way but actually we were thanking her for giving us whatever goodness was in us.

I hear my mother's voice echo you're all the sunlight that's ever been in my life.

Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children.

Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done.

Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.

Being a mother makes everything more urgent.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.

In this achievement-based lifestyle, most of us have certain boxes we're checking to make us useful humans. But a lot of things you do as a parent are kinda invisible. There's a lot you achieve - just getting dinner on the table - that are more than making a song.

I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.

Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato.

It is the women who bring the men to this world: men are there because of women. It was my mother who brought me out of a health condition that threatened to usurp me completely. If we still treat women with disrespect, it is utterly shameful.

I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation at the dinner table or for me to do well at school, and those were really my focuses because that was what was valued the most.

I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn't find it frivolous.

For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.