Quotes About Nurturing

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

To be a mother is a whole new adventure.

Friendships are like plowed open fields ready for growth. What we plant is what will grow. If we plant seeds of reassurance, blessing, and love, we reap a great harvest of security.

You are exactly the mom God knew your children needed.

Does having three other children lessen your pain over the one who is lost? Not lessen the pain, no. But it keeps me wanting to draw breath. It keeps me alive. In nurturing and caring for another child you can love the child you lost.

A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience in their premortal existence, Because our mothers love us, we learn, or more accurately remember, that God also loves us

Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.

This generosity of spirit-this caring about others and about the proposition that we are all created equal-is the single most effective antidote to the self-centered moral numbness that allows Fascism to thrive. It is a capacity that can be found in most people, but it is not always nurtured and is sometimes, for a period, brutally crushed.

When we protect our children from excessive control, outsized competition, and persistent academic pressure, and choose instead to commit to nurturing them with warmth, clear limits, firm consequences, and a delight in their potential and uniqueness, then our children are free to return to their essential task—the development of a sense of self, sufficiently robust to weather the inevitable ups and downs of a lifetime.

I was giddy feeling his first kicks and I spoke to him every moment, as I crushed my herbs, as I cut clothes for his body, wove his cradle out of rushes. I imagined him walking beside me, the child and boy and man that he would be.

Venusians have different values. They value love, communication, beauty, and relationships. They spend a lot of time supporting, helping, and nurturing one another. Their sense of self is defined through their feelings and the quality of their relationships. They experience fulfillment through sharing and relating.

Treat her in ways you did at the beginning of the relationship.

Well, in my defense, I was walking the floor at three this morning with her latest child. I think it's a girl. What's her name?

He would deliver babies. He would deliver mothers, too.

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

Education is soul crafting.

Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.

There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

Fatherhood is the greatest education a man can ever receive.

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.