Quotes About Nurturing

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.

They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.

We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, or use blaming words.

Fatherhood is not an easy assignment, but it ranks among the most imperative ever given, in time or eternity.

I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.

In philanthropy, you have to take the attitude of a mother... You have to be patient, and we have been very patient for a long time.

My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.

An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.

Baby-carrying means your hearts are close together. It's a very intense and beautiful way to bond with your baby, very intimate. It's also easier than a stroller.

As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.

When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.

My only specific instructions were to keep him warm and dry and to guard him with her life when she took him out. "Patrick is the most important thing in the world to me. You'll understand when you're a mother yourself.

And in their presence I was what every child needs to be for however long it takes to put down the roots of a strong spirit: the object of love unlimited.

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I was a solitary being, and from my infant years, ever since my dear nurse left me, I had been a dreamer.

My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.

But other people fast or walk long pilgrimages to honor the spirit of what they believe makes our world whole and lovely. If we gardeners can, in the same spirit, put our heels to the shovel, kneel before a trench holding tender roots, and then wait three years for an edible incarnation of the spring equinox, who's to make the call between ridiculous and reverent?

They count that as your birthday -- the day your mother gets up. Not the day you were born? Not the day you came out. They count the mother getting better as all part of the birth.

As I planted the beans, Turtle followed me down the row digging each one up after I planted it and putting it back in the jar. "Good girl," I said. I could see a whole new era arriving in Turtle's and my life.

If a way to a man's heart was through his stomach, surely the way to a mother's heart was through her children.