Quotes About Nurturing

Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

So much of motherhood is acting.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Kate Atwood tended to the orchids in her greenhouse. She whispered to them in a soothing, absentminded way. She supposed if she were a cat person, she'd chat with her cats – but she was a plant person.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love.

as she walked back to her husband, lola thought about lying on her expensive sheets and holding a baby - their baby - to her breast. to the baby, lola would smell like a mother, and the ridiculous chandelier would look like stars.

See life and feel its pulses with the eyes of a compassionate mother.

Where there is a mother in the house, matters speed well.

It was a festival of maternal love, all day, every day.

you notes, and defended him against all comers. I was as good a parent as I knew how to be, because there was something about the job that mattered to me (well, not "something": my own mother, who was a loving presence and a terrible cook but never protected me from anything or anyone, handicapped as she was by besetting anxiety).

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

between her lips. Then squirt the medicine into her cheek. Withdraw the syringe, and hold her mouth closed until you see her swallow.

a mother should, above all, make her children feel safe. Perhaps

They are in the field where they protect their animals: they represent those who care for the vulnerable. They may also remind us of other shepherds: Rebecca, Rachel, Moses, and David.

La gente buena tiene un don para irradiar cariño, para producir campos de fuerza donde poder cobijar a los demás, y en parte gracias a esas personas y a la constancia de sus gestos amables, la humanidad todavía no se ha extinguido.

O mare dragoste nu este de ajuns pentru a lega de tine fiinta pe care o iubesti, daca nu te pricepi sa umpli viata celuilalt cu o bogatie necontenit reimprospatata.

We look at babies and we see ourselves, only without all the baggage. We can look into a baby's face and somehow imagine that life will be different for them. That it will be better. Kinder. Free from pain.

Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

My mother worked full-time running a foundation, but she found all the time in the world to have supper ready every night, feed us shirred eggs on the weekends, and produce a leg of lamb for my fourth-grade Bedouin feast at school.

I was born singing. My father tells this story about when I was 3 weeks old, how I would rock in the crib and sing in the crib all night long. My crib would roll across the floor in the middle of the night. Finally, my father nailed its legs to the floor.

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

For me, living a balanced life means nurturing the academic, physical, and spiritual aspects of my life so I can maintain a sense of well-being and self-esteem.

All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.