Quotes About Nurture

Your imagination is the movie trailer for your future, so nurture it always. Logic will get you to the next level, but only imagination will take you to the level you really want to find.

Men are kids at heart. They want to be nourished and pet like a dog.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

conversation is like a dear little baby that is brought in to be handed round. You must rock it, nurse it, keep it on the move if you want it to keep smiling.

It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food. But it took centuries to figure out that infants can and do perish from want of love.

If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.

I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.

I want you to know you're in my heart... growing into a beautiful garden.

What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.

Stress lay in the cast of the mind, as far as Brys was concerned. Born of perspective and the hue through which one saw the world, and such things were shaped by both nature and nurture.

A child starved never grows tall or strong. A child unloved can never find love or give it when grown. A child that does not laugh will become someone who can find nothing in the world to laugh at. And a child hurt deeply enough will spend a lifetime trying to scab that wound – even as they ceaselessly pick at it.

Being a parent is a monumental thing. You shape reality for another person. You cannot be an illusion. You cannot be paralyzed by the fear that you are an illusion. If you have done a bad job, or no job at all, what remains of you is proof that the world is an unfeeling place. If you have done a good job, what remains is the part of you that was magical.

His research led him to one overwhelming conclusion, published in a seminal paper in 1975: big cities nurture subcultures much more effectively than suburbs or small towns.

Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

Writing characters is like raising kids, only more work—because you have to do everything for them.

I'm not even much of a gardener—my contribution to the family garden consists mainly of compost.

I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it.

The child was my little seed. As had been promised in the ritual, I would haunt her to womanhood. I would nurture and strengthen her powers from afar. She would flourish within the caul of my benevolence.

Love her, Louis, make her well. You must love your children.

All seeds require a protracted growth period.