Quotes About Nurturing

I've been doing things myself in the sense that I haven't had a night nurse or anything like that, so I've spent every night with baby except for the nights that I've had to travel.

He who plants kindness gathers love.

Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.

When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.

I knew nothing but love and devotion when I was growing up. Trust me, it makes everything easier.

If a child is born and raised in a home that is loving and nurturing, where there is complete truth about who we are, you can't give a child any greater place from which to fly.

She seemed born to be a mother and chose to love almost everything about it.

I cannot live without children.

The job of the parent is not to impose his or her will on the child, but to get the child to listen to his or her own inner voice. Inspiration, not just prescription.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encoragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.

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.

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

God liked eggs in the morning. It didn't really matter which kind. Poached, fried, scrambled. Sometimes he had them bring him what he called a bird's nest: a piece of toast with an egg stuck in the middle.

These worthy schoolteachers were not overburdened with diplomas, but as far as devotion and morality were concerned, they were second to none; they wore plum-colored silk blouses that caressed my cheeks when they pressed me to their bosoms.

Position the ladder right for them, but help not a child to climb.

Don't poets know it, Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers.