Quotes About Nurturing

There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

These women never cut the umbilical cord. We get raised by one woman, and then when we're ripe, we get turned over to another woman.

No painter's brush, nor poet's pen In justice to her fame Has ever reached half high enough To write a mother's name.

Grandmas don't just say "that's nice" — they reel back and roll their eyes and throw up their hands and smile. You get your money's worth out of grandmas.

A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.

Grandmother — a wonderful mother with lots of practice.

Families are like fudge — mostly sweet with a few nuts.

...a little child, born yesterday, A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed...

Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee.

Mommies are just big little girls.

Boobs are for breastfeeding.

A garden of love grows in a grandmother's heart.

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.

It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother — that's why the world calls her grandmother.

I fell in love with you when you were forming in my womb. Now I carry you in my heart instead of my arms.

A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.

Grandma serves kisses, counsel, and cookies daily.

In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.

A child is too old to breast-feed when he can unhook mommy's bra with one hand.

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor--it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.