Quotes About Nurture

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

Never give up on your child. But also, you have to love your child.

What we love, we protect. This story will delight children and parents alike, who care for what they love.

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

There is nothing like the love or a child.

With the right treatment, love, and care the world is a better place.

The beloved is one who nurtures you, trusts you, supports you, encourages you, loves you without conditions. That's you.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us

It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.

... love is healing, even rootless love.

Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.

He, at this very moment, issues invitations by the millions. He whispers through the kindness of a grandparent, shouts through the tempest of a tsunami. Through the funeral he cautions, "Life is fragile." Through a sickness he reminds, "Days are numbered." God may speak through nature or nurture, majesty or mishap. But through all and to all he invites: "Come, enjoy me forever.

Mothers who love their children take them along.

The roots of love need watering or it dies.

Friendship supplied the root-- It was planted years ago-- To bring me flowers and seed Through the long drought

You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.

My mother raised me, and then freed me

Living well is an art which can be developed.

Joy is an important element of happiness. It is sometimes the difference between striving and thriving. One must nurture the joy in one's life so that it reaches full bloom.

Mother whispered, "See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking." She turned out the light and I patted my son's body lightly and went back to sleep.

You don't have to nurse her. There are nurses here to do that. I only want you to hold her hand.

I can hear. I can speak. I have a son. I have a mother. I have a brother. I can dance. I can sing. I can cook. I can read. I can write.

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother." (1986)