Quotes About Nurture

His character is two-sided and, according to his training, his character qualities are either nurtured into virtues or allowed to degenerate into vices.

You could stamp on this natural shoot of compassion, Mencius argued, just as you can cripple or deform your body, but if you cultivate this altruistic tendency assiduously, it will acquire a dynamic power of its own.23 The

It makes me wonder which tendencies are decided by birth, and which by desire.

That's what mother's do. They bother you until you listen. And they do it because they car.

You might be a good mom...You can practice on me.

I can't be my own mother

The patient bird breakfasts on the juiciest worm.

My nurture mother never would have reset me. And I was never a kit. Or a 'female.' I might be a non-human, but I'm not an animal. I'm a girl.

I know genes are a big deal, son, but they're not the be-all and end-all. Rob slowed to a halt at the lights, wishing the dickhead behind would back off. If they were, you'd be in a seafood salad and I'd be in prison.

Which is the best gift I ever gave my daughter.

He was his mother's son, kind and gentle. She was her father's daughter, quick of mind, fascinated by intrigue and all that went with it. But

Pamela produced placid babies. They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, she said.

If Bertie was a god (a favourite fantasy), she would be manufacturing things there was a shortage of - bees, tigers, dormice - not flip-flops and phone covers and toothpaste.

but how could you spoil a child—by neglect, yes, but not by love. You had to give them all the love you could, even though giving that much love could cause you pain and anguish and horror and, in the end, love could destroy you.

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation

Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.

Man is a child of his environment

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.

A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

I'm probably more of a new man. I'm not particularly alpha. 'Nourish and nurture' are my watchwords as opposed to 'search and destroy'.

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are derived from their mothers.