Quotes About Nurture

I don't want a daughter named after a stone," she had said, choosing instead to name her Miri after the flower that conquered rock and climbed to face the sun.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

If Maria is our hugger, Gloria is our rocker. She rocks for hours in the corner under one of the dumb smiling flowers.

Children don't wait for you to spend time with them. They grow up with or without you.

If you're at a loss for friends, you can always grow a garden. Something beautiful and blooming might be solace for your soul." -H.W. Marsworth

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.

If people are jumping down people's throats all the time, in the end, they'll just shrivel up like a flower shrivels up that's not watered.

Every time we help an animal, we are healing ourselves, over and over.

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

What you feed in yourself that grows.

Most mothers kiss and scold together.

Oh, how helpless women were. All they could do was nurture those people within the small confines of their world. But who knew? Perhaps nurturing was ultimately as important as anything else. Look where the wars waged by men had got the world. Into ever more wars and conflicts—that was where.

It was you who made my growing years bearable . . . You gave me everything you were able to give—you gave me love. It has been enough. It is the only thing that really matters, you know.

Add water, and the soil is so fertile that you could plant a pencil and harvest a book.

Love your own body like your mom loved your baby feet.

Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms.

Breast milk and amniotic fluid carry the flavors of the mother's foods, and studies consistently show that babies grow up to be more accepting of flavors they've sampled while in the womb and while breastfeeding.

People like what they eat, rather than eat what they like." The phenomenon starts early. Breast milk and amniotic fluid carry the flavors of the mother's foods, and studies consistently show that babies grow up to be more accepting of flavors they've sampled while in the womb and while breastfeeding. (Babies swallow several ounces of amniotic fluid a day.)

He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind, and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind.

Someone's got to look after the devil himself, as long as he wears clothes and needs food and drink.

I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me...

Our strength shall serve as a luminous sun toward which all intelligence may blossom. And the impervious shelter beneath which you will prosper.

Nature is the length of the rectangle, nurture the width. There can be no rectangle without both.

The influence upon our intelligence of events that happened in the womb is three times as great as anything our parents did to us after our birth.