Quotes About Nurturing

Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.

As a child, Leeda Cawley-Smith had had a natural attachment to animals, and they had had a natural attachment to her---cats and dogs were constantly following her home and even squirrels let her get close enough to feed them nuts.

Is this why, for countless days, In my arms I carried you, Is this why your strength had blazed Through your lively eyes of blue!

more interesting as they grow older, and I particularly want to keep an eye on them once they start their schooling.

Our table was round," recalled one of the artists who, from a farming family in N?gata, returned every planting season to help his now elderly parents plant rice. "A square table has edges, but edges divide people. As a family, we weren't cut off from one another. We ate together and we listened to one another." Eating together, listening to one another, sharing food. The memory evoked a familiar, now nostalgic, sense of touch in them all.

This one day her mother gave her a basket of wine and cake to take to her grandmother because she was ill. Wine and cake? Where's the aspirin? The penicillin? Where's the fruit juice? Peter Rabbit got camomile tea. But wine and cake it was.

She sees to oars and oarlocks for the dinghy, has placed wild flowers at the window at breakfast, sat by the potter's wheel at midday, set forth three children under the moon, three cherubs drawn by Michelangelo, done this with her legs spread out in the terrible months in the chapel.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Who fed me from her gentle breast And hushed me in her arms to rest, And on my cheek sweet kisses prest? My Mother.

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

Elle servait des pommes de terre et du lait du matin au soir pour que je sois assise dans un amphi à écouter parler de Platon

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes a lot to be a daddy.

It's our job as marketers and brand professionals to nurture the brand and calm it down when it's angry and to encourage when it's trying to grow.

Keep a check on your children, but do not force them to do something you wanted to do, or what you wish them to be. Be frank with them, know their interests and promote that too.

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.

A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.

Having a daughter has reawakened my sense of feminism. I want to protect her.

I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what a hard job it is now, and I'm coming at it from another angle - like you just love and care about this person so much, and just want to protect them from everything.

My mother never, ever told me about evilness. She only saw the beautiful things... she wanted to protect me from it.

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.

Being a dad comes with all of the love and all of the care and the protection that we're supposed to provide for kids.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.