Quotes About Nurture

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

I want to do for you what the spring does for the cherry trees

A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.

Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits.

Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed.

Water the fruit trees and don't water the thorns.

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

I was raised by the song Of the murmuring grove And loving I learned Among Flowers.

Love must blossom. Through love will grow the trees and the bushes.

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

There's a pigeon's nest on the branch of the tree outside the window. A chick is growing up in it. I'm happy about that

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.

Nothing can grow under big trees.

People are like vines ... We are born and we grow. Like vines, people also need a tree to cling to, to give them support.

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.

Plant no other tree before the vine.

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.