Quotes About Nurture

If alcohol fuels our Dionysian tendencies, caffeine nurtures the Apollonian.

Deep down I suspect that many gardeners regard themselves as minor-league alchemists, transforming the dross of compost (and water and sunlight) into substances of rare value and beauty and power.

Improving the soil improved the man.

Among the many, many things the green thumb knows is the consolation of the compost pile, where nature, ever obliging, redeems this season's deaths and disasters in the fresh promise of next spring.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

We must simply do every single thing in our power to protect our children from abuse and help them live healthy, prosperous lives.

Someone's going to be able to take good care of my sister. She knows how to be taken care of.

My sister is not my mother, but more than anyone else, she fills that role for me now - like it or not. And indeed, all women I know play that role for somebody - like it or not.

I enjoy all my relationships with my husband, my kids, my sisters and my girlfriends and maintaining a healthy relationships across the board nurtures my soul.

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

I say, 'You should blanket me' or 'you should blanket her', meaning like a blanket is a blessing. It's a way of showing love and caring.

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

I say love, it is a flower, and you, its only seed.

There is no other love like a mother's love for her child.

Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

Having a baby is definitely a labor of love.

We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.

Love is like a flower - you have to let it grow.