Quotes About Nurturing

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.

And now and then his mind reverted to his treatment by those rude Christ's Hospital Boys, and he said, When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teaching out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

while Shiegra, the lioness, often crept stealthily into Necile's bower and purred softly as she lay beside the babe and fed it.

When I picked him up originally, the boy's spirit was soft and cold, like ice-cream. He started melting in my arms. Then warming up completely. Healing.

For a moment, it appeared that her foster mother would comfort her or pat her on the shoulder. Good girl, Liesel. Good girl. Pat, pat, pat. She did no such thing. Instead, Rosa Hubermann stood up, selected a wooden spoon, and held it under Liesel's nose. It was a necessity as far as she was concerned.

I wouldn't be worth my salt as a mother if I didn't pass on the family recipes.

You don't have to say thank you. I'm your mother. It's my job. My pleasure.

And if we do not grow with our children, they cannot learn.

She saw clearly that she could both love her son fiercely and let him go. In fact, for their mutual survival, she had no choice but to let him go, to teach him that she "did not exist to do his feeling for him."5

Oh, it is sweet to sleep against a woman's breast, a mother's, or a mistress's, but the mother's is sweetest. LAURA.

There are many times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

Mothering well is a prayerful art. —Lori McConnell, Restoring Hope in a Woman's Heart

Olive had great courage. Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.

Al igual que una madre. ¿Qué haría una madre si no pudiera quejarse sobre ti y hacerte limpiar tu habitación? ¿Y qué harías tú sin ella quejándose y haciendo que lo hagas? Todo el mundo necesita una madre. Y una madre lo sabe. Y le da un sentido de propósito. ¿Lo entiendes?

Ultimately, however, whether it is mother, wife, or child who keeps a man going, or whether a woman focuses her self-sacrifice on parent, husband, or child, the simultaneous connection and contrast between nurturing within the family and competition outside it leads to a profound sense of loneliness.

as long as we respond to the uncertainties with common sense, flexibility, and affection, most of us can be, in therapist Donald Winnicott's words, "good enough" parents.

A mother needs to be in the home even when the kids aren't. A messy house sends a coded message to children: "I'm not loveable. Otherwise Mother would dust.

I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.

I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, that we neglect to give them what we DID have growing up.

With bread and wine you can walk your road.

If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.

The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.