Quotes About Nurturing

My father loved people, children and pets.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

There's a special place in heaven for caregivers.

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

My definition of a father is someone who empowers their children.

As a father, you want the best for your son, quite obviously. You want to create the best memories for your son.

Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

There is a great need for nurturing different ways of thinking and different attitudes, rather than being supressing and uncaring.

When the world seems crazy, chaotic, destructive, you can choose to create your own world of peace and love. You do not have to immerse yourself in the illusion of craziness. You can create your own heaven on earth by being kind, surrounding yourself with good people, and nurturing the earth.

Children shouldn't have to sacrifice so that you can have the life you want. you make sacrifices so your children can have the life that they deserve..

Parenting is the biggest sacrifice one can make, it's putting your life on hold to fulfill the promise of your children's tomorrow's.

Children are our most precious resource, but a good parent or parent-like figure are becoming almost extinct. If you are blessed to have one, never let an opportunity go by to not show your gratitude because everything, everyone has an expiration date.

A parents job isn't to prevent their children from falling, but to pick them up when they do.

Custom came to take me in her arms, carried me all the way up to my bed, and laid me down there like a little child.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

it's what makes you grow up to have younguns and be a sho-nuff mammy all your own ... . A man ain't but trouble, just breath and britches and trouble

Life is only lived full-time by women with children.

A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing! Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!

Los verdaderamente fuertes son los que en esta vida saben ser dulces y estar llenos de amor.

We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

Our work is not to teach, but to help the absorbent mind in its work of development. How marvelous it would be if by our help, if by an intelligent treatment of the child, if by understanding the needs of his physical life and by feeding his intellect, we could prolong the period of functioning of the absorbent mind!

Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on