Quotes About Nurturing

A mother's love is like a tower, Rising far above the crowd, And her smile is like the sunshine, Breaking through a threatening cloud.

The soul is healed by being with children.

If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished: I hold it in me like a pregnancy or as on my lap a child not to grow or grow old but dwell on

Let us be different in our homes. Let us realize that, along with food, shelter, and clothing, we have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their "rightness." The whole world will tell them what's wrong with them—loud and often. Our job is to let our children know what's right about them.

It's a bittersweet road we parents travel. We start with total commitment to a small, helpless human being. Over the years we worry, plan, comfort, and try to understand. We give our love, our labor, our knowledge, and our experience—so that one day he or she will have the inner strength and confidence to leave us.

She was her mother's favorite saying come to life. The cure for everything is salt water: tears, sweat, or the sea.

I would look back on my parents' generosity and understand it one day. There isn't anything a parent won't do for her child. There is no limit on love.

She thought about Ciro and how she'd loved him from the first moment she saw him, and how tradition, properly cared for, nurtured, honored, and respected, continues to feed the soul of a family. Antonio

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

They clomp together through the narrow streets, Marie-Laure's hand on the back of Madame's apron, following the odors of her stews and cakes; in such moments Madame seems like a great moving wall of rosebushes, thorny and fragrant and crackling with bees.

rediscover a few key facts about friendships: They take time. They require attention. They need nurturing. Not the friends, necessarily, but the friendships. The quality and durability of any friendship reflects all that is put into it by both parties. Honest conversation. Availability. Sensitivity. Care. Compassion. Remember

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.

The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be himself.

It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.

There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.

It's very easy for me to just encourage people in their family life and in their children. It's just very natural to me. It's what I feel comfortable doing, and so I enjoy it.

Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into his or her life as a FRIEND, a MENTOR, and a GUIDE.

~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~