Quotes About Nurturing

As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think it's just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.

My father became completely responsible for my education and for raising me.

My hobby is raising my children.

I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.

One of the biggest lessons I've learnt is patience. It's critical when raising a child.

Raising a family is life's greatest joy, but it can also be humbling. You cannot do it alone.

God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.

Motherhood is exhausting, but you get to know the deeper ramifications of it as you go along.

I'm a flower gardener.

It's a brilliant place to be. It's rewarding. Gardens are so rewarding.

The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

I credit my singing to my mom because she didn't give me a binky when I was a baby. I cried and screamed for the first six months - my mom would say four years of my life - and I developed wonderful lungs.

The Go-Go's were like my first babies.

God bless nannies.

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.

My most important legacy is being a good father to my two children.

Having small children, you start thinking about how everything in your life revolves around doing the best you can for this little being, trying to make a good life for that person.

I just feel that if you're going to have kids, you need to believe that, emotionally, you can give them a really good life.

For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.

I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother.

Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.

My mom is an exceptionally wise and kind person.

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody... as a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

I often say that if I had one wish in this world, I would wish that every child could have a mother the way my mother were. And I never went without clothes, I never went without food... I never went without anything that a child needs. But above all of that, she gave me unconditional love.