Quotes About Nurture

I have a lot of surrogate parents, but there's no one like your mother.

What's the matter with manhood? There's something about how masculinity is imagined, about what's praised and encouraged, about the way violence is passed on to boys that needs to be addressed.

the ocean is my mother.

Love your plant whether it blooms or not, whether it lives or dies.

Women are born; men must be made.

No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch. A body is the genes' way of preserving the genes unaltered.

Our genes may instruct us to be selfish, but we are not necessarily compelled to obey them all our lives. It may just be more difficult to learn altruism than it would be if we were genetically programmed to be altruistic. Among animals, man is uniquely dominated by culture, by influences learned and handed down.

Debemos enseñar a nuestros hijos el altruismo ya que no podemos esperar que éste forme parte de su naturaleza biológica

Why are genetic determinants thought to be any more ineluctable, or blame-absolving, than 'environmental' ones?

Todos somos partes de la tierra; algunos estamos destinados a ser grandes afluentes y a guiar las aguas por el terreno, alimentándolo y haciéndolo crecer. Algunos somos montañas que vigilan las fronteras de las naciones, protegiendo a las personas inocentes de los planes de los invasores. Y algunos de nosotros no somos más que flores, con un breve lapso para crecer a la luz del sol antes de morir.

We must actively, consciously, consistently, and creatively nurture our artist selves.

Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." THE TALMUD

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. MOTHER TERESA

shadow artists must learn to take themselves seriously. With gentle, deliberate effort, they must nurture their artist child. Creativity is play, but for shadow artists, learning to allow themselves to play is hard work.

put us in touch with our spiritual core. For others, it's a trip to a greenhouse. The point is that even the slightest attention to our impoverished areas can nurture them.

Para lograr una buena relación con nuestra creatividad debemos dedicar el tiempo suficiente a cultivarla y cuidarla.

Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways. Look at your refrigerator. Are you feeding yourself nicely? Do you have socks? An extra set of sheets? What about a new house plant? A thermos for the long drive to work? Allow yourself to pitch out some of your old ragged clothes. You don't have to keep everything.

Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow.

Cuidando de si próprio, você alimenta sua conexão interna com o Grande Criador. Graças a essa conexão, a nossa criatividade desabrochará. Caminhos irão se abrir. Precisamos acreditar no Grande Criador e agir com fé.

tu artista es un niño y necesita alimentarse.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'!" In other words, friendship is the most important thing—not career or housework, or one's fatigue—and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

They say things are determined by genetics, by parenting, by heredity, by climate, by diet, by geography, by time spent in the womb, by nature, by nurture. They fail to hear the elephant in the room, trumpeting away: history.

We live as if nature and nurture were equal parents when the evidence suggests that nature has both the whip hand and the whip.

when one loved, one cherished. One protected.