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Quotes About Nurturing

A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.
~ David Blankenhorn
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
~ Margaret Fuller
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we're depriving them of happiness as adults?
~ Lori Gottlieb
Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.
~ Jean Illsley Clarke
When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.
~ Nhat Hanh
Woman's primary place is in the home, where she is to rear children and abide by the righteous counsel of her husband.
~ Bruce R. McConkie
What I want for children in our country and around the world is safe, stable and loving homes.
~ Laura Bush
What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed.
~ Brooke Shields
I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
~ Washington Irving
A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.
~ Joyce Maynard
A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.
~ Paul McCartney
My joy burns brighter when I tend to the glowing hearth fires of home.
~ Thomas Kinkade
Home is the best place to be sick in.
~ Margaret Deland
Children who know they are loved, know they have a purpose, and know they have a hope are prepared for anything this world wants to dish up.
~ Tim Kimmel
My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.
~ Dalai Lama
Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment.
~ Lady Gaga
Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.
~ Michael Bassey
The birthing wolf, Her heart fed with tenderness, Gave forth from ripe brown nipples, Food to feed the universe.
~ Roman Payne
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.
~ Demetri Martin
I commend you on all you've done for PETA, wrestling the one-eyed trouser snake with your bare hands, gently cuddling it in your arms, and nurturing it back to health.
~ Sarah Silverman