Quotes About Nurture

A day is Eternity's seed, and we are its Gardeners.

I am no warrior, but I am a ThunderClan cat. I stay in the nursery rather than hunt and fight because that is what I do best. I care for our young as though they were my own. This is my gift to the Clan, but I do it in my own chosen name.

According to tradition, they are named for the first thing their mother sees when they are born, although to my mind that would lead to a lot of kits being called Roof of Cave or Wall of Cave or Floor of Cave.

listening to she-cats moaning on about their sickly kits.

two young ginger-and-white she-cats sharing a thrush a tail-length away. "They're Flurry and Sparrow. Hawk's their mother.

We've called the gray one Dovekit

Cinderpelt, are you ready to look after the wounded?

Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.

Anything can start to taste good if you have enough positive memories of being fed it by a parent.

From childhood onwards, our idea of fullness is heavily influenced by how much food we are offered.

Much of what we learn about eating comes from the way our parents feed us.

Feeding, like eating, is a learned behaviour and the methods that most parents absorb for doing it are based on the values of former times when a child needed to be protected from scarcity rather than plenty.

Feeding children is an immense responsibility.

Parents and children resemble each other no more in the foods they like than couples do, suggesting that nurture - who you eat with - is more powerful than nature in determining our food habits. Whatever our innate dispositions, our experience with food can override them.

All the foods you regularly eat are the ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs.

If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it cannot spread itself in flower-clusters and wide-twining vines, so that the whole air is filled with the perfume thereof. But there is to be another summer for it yet. Care for the root now, and God will care for the top by and by.

Grace is only nature blossomed out; nature won and warmed into its true growth.

Birds finish the nest with their own breast, so it is the bosom that makes the home, and not the bill or the claw.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

charity begins in your own family.

Like all of us, children just want to be needed. It's our job to make sure they actually are.

We also planted trees - it became a hobby, for we had discovered what a satisfaction it can be to watch a tree grow and develop. Sometimes a tree will turn out better than any of a man's children, and a tree will endure - its life will outlast our life.

War is to man as motherhood is to woman.