Quotes About Nurturing

it is not unreasonable to think that when you touch a baby's face you are touching the face of God. Have you ever seen a baby in an old people's home? They are worshipped. They become divine.

When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.

The baby's eyes were dark, almost black, and when I nursed her in the middle of the night, she'd stare at me with a stunned, shipwrecked look as if my body were the island she'd washed up on.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Integrity and self-esteem are related. The more successfully parents look after a child's integrity, the greater the possibility that the child will develop healthy self-esteem.

children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.

The most important thing in a child's development is emotional stability.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

There's enough pressure keeping this perfect little creature alive. Just do the best you can, whatever your best is.

This experience of being loved by mother is a passive one. There is nothing I have to do in order to be loved—mother's love is unconditional. All I have to do is to be—to be her child. Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Children, that's what a man needs—children, who know nothing about it.

Friends are annuals that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a perennial that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash . . . you add a longer tail . . . you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly.

Dizem que as sementes daquilo que havemos de realizar se encontram já todas dentro de nós, mas sempre me pareceu que, naqueles que troçam da vida, as sementes se encontram cobertas de melhor terra e de uma percentagem mais alta de adubo.

Thirty-one children. Thirty-one chances. Thirty-one futures, our futures. It's an almost psychotic feeling, believing that part of their lives belongs to me.

My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.

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She took to children like a duck to water, enough to make you wonder why she'd not had any of her own. I asked her about that, once, years later; she said she'd never, not until she picked us up and cuddled us that very first morning, known what men were FOR. 'I'd often wondered,' she said. 'When I saw you two, the penny dropped.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.

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

Quick, nervy and jumpy -yet to the children she was as constant as a staff, a tree that can be counted on not to pull up its root and shift in the night. She was the tree that grew in the centre of their lives and in whose shade they lived.

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

When you bring kids in to the world it's a big responsibility, you're responsible for taking care of those kids and providing for the kids and whatnot. It's been a huge change in my life; it's been a great experience for me.