Quotes About Nurturing

I realized I didn't just want to parent children in my own little home but to mother the whole world. What's the point of gaining influence if you're not going to use it?

I'm a parent. I'm a mother.

I think having four children made me a good mentor. As a parent, you get to know young people as they mature and grow up and to also learn about some of the difficulties they face.

All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

Parenthood helps you be less selfish, because you don't care about anything as much as you do them.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.

Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.

My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.

I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.

I think letting babies cry it out is barbaric. Why would parenting stop when it's dark outside? You can't expect a baby to know that he's supposed to sleep just because we want to go to bed.

My father said, 'Let's raise our child in a paradise instead of a parking lot,' and that's what they did.

My mother is very positive and encouraging and nurturing, as a mother should be. She's my auditioning partner. She says when it's not good enough; she says when I'm ready.

You have to put your partner and family at the top of the list and there must be downtime - time for gardening, cooking time, book reading time.

I'm quite a nurturing person, and I'm more a mom than a crazy, partying rock star.

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

I do want to be a mother. I like the idea of passing on what my mother passed on to me.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

J'ai fait de ma fille un être de papier. J'ai tous les soirs transformé mon bureau en théâtre d'encre où se jouaient encore ses aventures inventées.