Quotes About Nurturing

Mrs. Church settled a blanket over him and told the footmen, "Take him up to the master bedroom. Softly…no jostling. Treat him as if he were a newborn babe." After counting in unison, the footmen lifted the stretcher. "A babe that weighs fourteen stone," one of them grunted. Mrs. Church tried to look stern, but the corners of her eyes crinkled briefly. "Mind your tongue, David.

My roses grew wild and died as I busied myself with feeding and diapering, nursery rhymes and sickbeds.......the best times of my life, the times that passed by me the most quickly, were the times when the roses grew wild

To my grandmothers, for tilling the soil in which we grew and for watering our roots with stories of all the old things

Maybe not everyone got the mom who baked cupcakes and showed up at all the school parties. There weren't enough of those to go around, so maybe God used other people, like Mrs. Lora and J. Norm, to make sure you learned how to shell a purple hull pea or find Saturn in the night sky.

And she often reminded me that those four kids of mine were my church. With that in mind, I had to refocus on my ministry...I had been given four very special projects that would have to be seen through to completion. Someone had to instill godly principals in my children's lives, and God let me know that I was the woman for the job.

Desserts are for pleasure. They are indulgences and luxuries, and we count on them to raise our spirits. And what could raise a mood or spirit better than a luscious creamy dessert like a quivering panna cotta, a rich butterscotch pudding, a caramel apple shortcake, or a Venetian-style fried custard?... When we're served them, we feel safe and loved, and when we prepare them and serve them to others, we feel generous and nurturing.

I would want to be a very present mother. You know, something that I never had.

nothing lasted forever, that they must use each moment, each day, as a rare gift. That they must never allow the cloak of hubris and self-indulgence to stop them from appreciating, nurturing, protecting those closest to them.

succinctly summarized this sentiment: "Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously,

After all, two hundred years ago, the philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe succinctly summarized this sentiment: "Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Mallory Quinn was sweet, warm, and caring. She was a white picket fence and two-point-four kids. She was a diamond ring. She was someone's keeper.

Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding, more patient, more capable, more wise.

Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be.

What is teaching but the art of planting and nurturing power?" Lea replied. "Mortals prattle on about lonely impulses of delight and the gift of knowledge, and think that teaching is a trade like metalsmithing or healing or telling lies on television. It is not. It is the dissemination of power unto a new generation and nothing less. For her, as for you, lessons demand real risk in order to attain their true rewards.

when it's your own child, you are not a babysitter. It's called parenting.

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.

24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

The thing about a mom is that she's always there. She's the one who rubs your back when you have the flu, who manages to notice you have no clean underwear and does your wash for you, who stocks the refrigerator with all the foods you love without having to ask. The thing about a mom is that you never imagine taking care of her, instead of the other way around.

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain you may be doing some good work.

It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day.

Shout out to the single father's that have also taken the role of the mother. They don't get appreciated enough for what they do.