Quotes About Nurturing

Teachers know that love is a vital part of education. Good teaching is infused with it. The most successful classrooms are brimming with it. Love is the reason people go into teaching -- love for a subject and love for children.

Is it any wonder that Canada, so generous when it comes to supporting the arts, is also a world leader when it comes to creating community, fashioning a global vision and nurturing an expansive vision of humanity?

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children.

I don't question the importance of learning how to cook at school. It's vital that children know how to create a few dishes to sustain themselves in later life, but that's different from the emotional, nurturing environment of the home kitchen with Mum.

I had the most incredible time on 'Dancing With the Stars.' It never occurred to me when I took it on that I would physically not be able to do it because that's not in an Olympic competitor's vocabulary! It was the most wonderful environment, such a nurturing environment.

Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

You have to be pretty selfless to have a child, who doesn't give a lot back to you.

When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.

You'll see me at my best is when I'm hopefully serving as a father to someone.

Right after you have a baby, the focus is on the baby. You don't feel sexual; you don't feel attractive; and you have a bigger job.

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

I always wanted to open an old peoples home and an animal shelter.

It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids.

They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.

Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.

I certainly love getting to know the babies if I'm going to be working with them.

What has kept me focused were my kids. My biggest focus is just making sure I'm good to my babies.

I've just always loved babies, even when I was a baby.

Women are strong. We have babies. We do it all.

I love babies and children.

I said I would get better with each baby, and I have.

Well, I think anybody who's had a baby can tell you that once you have a baby, they kind of become the main focus. I don't think there's gonna be a lot of room for anything else.

Lots of people have written to say 'Bake Off' has inspired them to bake with their children. I feel proud about that; it's exactly what I used to do with mine.