Quotes About Nurturing

once heard it explained that being near the ocean, with the surf and the swirling waters, was like being tucked inside a mother's womb.

The nature of love is about paying attention to the people who matter, about still giving when you are too tired to give. Be a mother who listens, a father who cuddles, a friend who calls back, a helping neighbor, a loving child.

Christian parents should each mentally lay their babies on the altar, offering them to God, and promising to do all in their power to win each child to a true following of God that is not superficial, but goes all the way down into the center of their personhood. Then each couple should follow that up with regular prayer for their kids, that they believe, what to say to them, how to influence them, and for help in not turning them off to God.

It is easier to perform surgery than to raise happy, healthy, good children – and surgeons are given years of specialized training, while most of us have to raise human beings from babyhood to adulthood with nothing but our own parents' often very faulty model to guide us.

If you are able to talk about your life and the joys and sorrows you have experienced, if you know your story, you are much more likely to be a skillful parent.

Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is-in the blink of an eye, a mother can see the child again as they were when they were born, when they learned how to walk, as they were at any age-at any time, even when the child is fully grown or a parent themselves.

the ancient savagery that men call motherhood, who mistake its tenderness for weakness.

His head bowed and his lips fastened softly on my nipple. I groaned, feeling the half-painful prickle of the milk rushing through the tiny ducts. I put a hand behind his head, and pressed him slightly closer. "Harder," I whispered.

Maybe it was the result of gardening, that quiet sense of pleasure in touching growing things, the satisfaction of helping them thrive.

I have noticed," she said slowly, "that time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is

of spit-up milk, soft feces, and the ultimate

onto the fabric of her shift; I reached out one-handed and tweaked the cloth up to cover her. She put a hand over her breast and pressed hard to stop the milk. "What does he mean to do, though? If he finds him.

I had turned the earth in my garden the day before, planting the winter seeds to sleep and swell, to dream their buried birth.

Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician. That much, Raymond had taught me.

I am creating a better atmosphere for our children and other children.

If I'm not the best aunt in America, then I don't know what's going on.

I'm such a dog person. I dunno, I just feel like it really enriches your life, to have something to care for.

I always thought I'd adopt - I have a dog but no children.

I'm really domestic.

Like most women, I always dreamed of becoming a mother.

My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person reading aloud to me.

I think my biggest role as a parent is teaching empathy.

My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

My parents really encouraged me.