Quotes About Nurture

suppose the sisters are my garden," she said. "They are the growing things I am meant to cultivate and serve." A twinkle came and went and her voice grew determined. "I will simply have to be firm about my own priorities, that's all.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Mental resilience is arguably the most critical trait of a world-class performer, and it should be nurtured continuously.

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

Alles, was wir als Erwachsene werden, geht darauf zurück, wer wir als Kinder waren, wie wir behandelt wurden und was unsere Ideen und Werte geprägt hat. Wir sind, wer wir waren - nur größer.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

A good home must be made, not bought.

Raising three human beings who will go out and change the world.

Las vidas de nuestros hijos son como flechas en nuestras manos, aprendiz. Para que sean útiles hay que impulsarlas lo más lejos posible.

Quienes nos precedieron nos entregaron un tesoro que tenemos la obligación de custodiar; pero no pasivamente, como si fuese una pieza arqueológica, sino con el esmero creativo con que cuidamos un árbol restallante de savia, para que nos brinde una sombra cada vez más frondosa

As long as fathers rule but do not nurture, as long as mothers nurture but do not rule, the conditions favoring the development of father-daughter incest will prevail.

Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

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.

It's just that when you agree to be mother to a child you haven't borne, your responsibility is twice as great. You must work even harder to ensure that child's happiness and welfare.

It was not that he'd changed her; all of the seeds were already there. But with him, she grew.

She was the key to his health. She fed his happiness. She would be the making of him.

The boy taught from infancy to be tough is emotionally doomed.

We have to teach goodness to our infants.

To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition.

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

The maternal instinct is in me.