Quotes About Nurture

By living our lives, we nurture death.

When told that future promotions will depend to some degree on their ability to nurture leaders, even people who say that leadership cannot be developed somehow find ways to do it.

Don't water your weeds

If you want one year of happiness, grow grain. If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees. If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.

I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.

If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.

The society will have good children, if the mothers are good. If the mothers lack sense and knowledge, the children may go the wrong way.

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

So much of the destruction on Earth has been wrought by men. Women are the ones who give life and try to pick up the pieces... What a great gender they are.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance.

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

One year of parenthood made us realize our responsibility towards our son. We also understood how a child needs his parents and how much they are dependent on their parents for anything to everything.

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Our children were trained to look after each other.

It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.

Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.

If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they're really just human.

Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.

Love.... Its eternal goal is life.... No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.