Quotes About Nurture

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

We humans are made such that loving attention can overcome both genetics and environment to a truly remarkable extent.

Rich wisdom is better even than rich soil, young Neil. Jose sees now that you grow in wisdom like a weed in manure.

The genes describe certain rules and constraints for patterns of interneuronal connections, but the actual connections we have as adults are the result of a self-organizing process based on our learning. The final result—who we are—is deeply influenced by both nature (genes) and nurture (experience).

los adultos representan el peligro más activo para los niños, a no ser que hayan tomado la decisión de reconocer y respetar los procesos de desarrollo.

My mom was always very, very careful with my mind: what I saw and didn't see.

I love caring for my home and family.

You do change when you have the responsibility of caring for children.

Most people would accept that we are, to a certain extent, products of our environment.

I want to be as healthy as I possibly can be. I just want to make sure that I do everything to take care of myself. Like they say, charity begins at home. Love begins at home, too. So I want to do the best for me. I want to pamper myself and do the best for my body.

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.

Civil society begins with the family.

A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.

Regardless of age, no one knows our children better than we do. So with having a child comes the responsibility of making every effort to support, protect, and give them the education they need to make good life choices.

We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, led, followed and coddled by black women, and they get very little in return.

My mum and dad did everything for me. They supported me, gave me a lot of advice. That support is everything. It gives you the confidence you need.

My focus is supporting my family and children and whatever way that comes, in a healthy way, I'm gonna do it.

As governor, one of my top priorities is supporting our children from cradle to career.

I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.

I come from a great home and fully supportive family that helped to nurture my dreams. A lot of people don't have those same things in their household.

You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed. They succeed because an adult figure, typically a mother, maybe a grandmother, nourishes the kid, supports the kid, protects the kid, encourages the kid to succeed. It's as if the environment never happened.

Actually, I had a lot of good people with me - my mother's sister did a lot of taking care of me, and I suppose I got more attention than my stepbrothers because at least I got to travel with my parents.