Quotes About Nurture

Love your children—and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

God knew that children grow and mature best in a stable, loving family, and this was one reason He gave marriage to us.

There is always the exceptional child, but the average tells us that the child is largely what the home has made him.

Take care of your soul—your inner self—by feeding on the Word of God and letting His Spirit transform you from within.

What relationships need strengthening in your life? Don't wait for them to grow cold or bitter, but ask God to help you strengthen them by putting God's love into action—begin today.

Gardens don't grow by themselves; they need to be tended and cultivated and weeded. The same is true of a marriage.

A good marriage is not "made in heaven," but on earth. Love is a fragile commodity which needs to be cultivated and nourished constantly.

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

We begin by looking out for our children, and in time, if we are so blessed, we find they are looking out for us.

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

A dear friend once told her that being a parent is like being a car mechanic—you can repair the car and take care of the car and keep the car on the road, but you can't fundamentally change the car.

Whatever else a father is in this life—cop, fireman, Indian chief—he provides for his family. He

Believing in nurture is like believing in God. You might be wrong, but you might as well cover your bases.

In the end, we're just their caretakers, Mike. We get them for a little while and then they live their lives. I just want him to stay alive and healthy until we let him go. The rest will be up to him." Mike

your child comes to you hardwired, that in the battle of nature vs nurture, nature kicks complete and total ass

and you quickly learn that your child comes to you hardwired, that in the battle of nature vs nurture, nature kicks complete and total ass.

The apple does not fall far from the tree.

Scout, let's get us a baby." "Where?

A beating will loosen a child's hide and let him grow.

We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it's gone forever.

By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to learn. What I learned from Naoko's death was this: no truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

What's nurtured slowly grows well.

We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. Like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it's gone forever. What I'd lost was not just Sumire. I'd lost that precious flame.