Quotes About Nurture

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout.

What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.

Those who plant trees plant hope.

A tree as wide as a man's embrace grows from a tiny shoot.

be the mountain / be the ocean / be the tree / be happy / be the light / be the shadow / be the rain / be you / be

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

Woodman spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me And I'll protect it now.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children.

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.

You have to trust your body to take care of you.

A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

You are the mother, the father, the sister, the brother, the teacher and the guide for the soul that has been placed in your trust.

Some turn the soil and plant seedlings. We garden with words and nurture affinity.

We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

We are psychologically programmed not only to nurture what we love but to love what we nurture.

In the classic children's story The Velveteen Rabbit, a stuffed animal becomes "real" because of a child's love. Tamagotchis do not wait passively but demand attention and claim that without it they will not survive. With this aggressive demand for care, the question of biological aliveness almost falls away. We love what we nurture; if a Tamagotchi makes you love it, and you feel it loves you in return, it is alive enough to be a creature.

There is power that comes to women when they give birth. They don't ask for it, it simply invades them. Accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it.

Every child grows everything depends on the teacher.

A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.