Quotes About Nurturing

Love 'em leaders genuinely care about their people. They appreciate, nurture, grow, recognize, challenge, understand, and respect them.

When you plant seeds in the garden, you don't dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they're ready.

We're not raising children with the love that we need to.

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck — and, of course, courage.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting.

Fostering is the most worthwhile and selfless act of love you can ever imagine. The children will teach you so much about your own life.

The Dolphins' is my tribute to all those selfless mothers and women that I have ever come across, including my own mother, Indira. Some 75 per cent of mothers that I have seen are like that, all of them worthy of emulation.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Thats all I ever wanted from my mum. To be held tight in a protective cuddle. To get out of the bath and be wrapped up in a towel, in her arms.

But who could teach daughters how to fly? Parents were by definition earthbound, grub eaters, feet in their own coffins, by dint of being parents.

Y entonces, recordando el comportamiento de sus maestros cuando se hallaban junto al lecho de un herido, comenzó a reconfortar al paciente con toda clase de buenas palabras, caricias quirúrgicas que son como el aceite con que se engrasan los bisturíes.

Children are often more sensitive than people think , and, if they are shut up in this way too early away from those they love, excessive sensitiveness, which plays havoc with their nerves, may develop and become pathological and dangerous.

The weaving of life between mother and daughter is just like the making of a basket. As time goes by, the interlacing takes shape and becomes stronger.

To be a mother is the greatest vocation in the world. No being has a position of such great power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her is necessarily committed the making of the nation's citizens.

Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.

Tough love is the hardest to give.

The good mamas are often tough mamas.

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.

I have gone above and beyond to care for my child, including an agreed upon monthly stipend, a house, a car, insurance, school and other essentials for the baby and his mother as well as many other things, including toys and clothing.

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.