Quotes About Nurturing

When you give your children certain life lessons, and they come and ask you for additional advice, you say to yourself, 'I've done my job,' and you'll continue to do your job.

When we're home, we like to cook and be together and do mom things when we can.

I cook every day. If I don't cook, they don't eat. Who's going to do it? I'm their mother!

I've always thought my dad was fantastic and now I'm a dad myself I can see what an incredible sacrifice he made as a man in the 60s - he was there every day for me, cooked my meals and shaped me.

Cooking for somebody is very personal.

It's not like I'm cooking! I'm breastfeeding - I feel like that's the best cooking I could do.

My kids always joked that I spent more time cooking the birds' food than I have cooking for them. And it's probably true.

By the time my brother was 8, he was cooking breakfast and dinner for us. And I was 5.

I love cooking... I'm quite domestic.

Good on every mother, whether they breastfeed or not, because this is not an easy job and as long as you and your baby are healthy and happy, that's all that counts.

I think of women as an all-being creature.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

Every time we rock our babies in the night, we bring order back to a disordered world. Every time we look down at our children and cry, we make the world one shade brighter. That's what children do to us - and for us.

You know, we've got to be able to understand that in order to curb their behavior, we've got to be accountable as parents in how we raise our children.

It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.

I was an at-home father, taking care of them for seven years when they were babies. I was one of those new-age, at-home dads.

If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.

There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.

I learned from my dad's mistakes. I think that's why I'm so into my son. I bring him lunch every day: McDonald's, Taco Bell, whatever junk food a kid likes, I will bring it for him. I've canceled gigs so I could be at moments for him. That wasn't a big thing for my dad.

In the early '70s - a very good time for children's books and their authors - editors and publishers were willing to take a chance on a new writer. They were willing and able to invest their time in nurturing writers with promise, encouraging them.

Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me.

When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.

When you're a big sister, it's a great job. I don't know how little sisters feel about their job, but when you're a big sister, you're supposed to take care of everything. And you feel good about it. I do.

I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care of my dad - she cooks, she does everything - and that's the kind of girl I am.