Quotes About Nurture

They may direct the construction of the body and brain in the womb, but then they set about dismantling and rebuilding what they have made almost at once—in response to experience.

You inherit not your IQ but your ability to develop a high IQ under certain environmental circumstances. How does one parcel that one into nature and nurture? It is frankly impossible.

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work--that goes on, and it adds up. It goes into the ground, into crops, into children's bellies and their bright eyes. Good things don't get lost.

When push comes to shove, a mother takes care of her children from the bottom up.

the blossom of our family, like one of those miraculous fruit trees that taps into an invisible vein of nurture and bears radiant bushels of plums while the trees around it merely go on living.

the very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed.

When you're given a brilliant child, you polish her and let her shine.

because anything to do with improving the life of a child is on the bottom.

You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.

We have to water, cultivate, and weed on a regular basis if we're going to enjoy the harvest. The difference between our own active involvement as gardeners and neglect is the difference between a beautiful garden and a weed patch

happy Mom means a happy family!

And to get those eggs on a regular basis, we need to take care of the goose. We need to create and care for the relationships that make those results possible.

that nurtures the self-esteem and self-worth of each, that creates opportunities for each to mature into independence and then gradually into interdependence? Could synergy not

It's hard not to get impatient. It takes character to be proactive, to focus on your Circle of Influence, to nurture growing things, and not to "pull up the flowers to see how the roots are coming.

When we act reactively in anger with family members, we risk destroying the trust that exists within our most important relationships. We rupture—not nurture—our family culture.

We have to water, cultivate, and weed on a regular basis if we're going to enjoy the harvest.

I was as lost as she - and far less significant. I had gleaned all that my gifts offered, and had now no occupation other than to nurture my dismay.

Being on Twitter is like having a fern.

Product people are the stewards or guides who serve to ensure that these products, as investment assets, are tended to and nurtured to produce returns.