Quotes About Nurture

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

A sensitive spirit wounded by those who should have nurtured, sees all things in a false color, is proud of its own isolation, magnifies its defects, is unfitted for the intercourse of the world and as far as the necessities will allow retires within itself and imagines that all others are more fortunate, more deserving and more happy.

Men are what their mothers made them. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life

Habit dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice, and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin again.

P252 Habit dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice, and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin again.

A plant needs to do more than stretch its leaves toward the sun. It also needs to send down roots deep into the ground. They hold on tightly in the dark, out of sight where it is easy to forget about them. But it is the fact that a plant can do these two things at once, anchoring itself to the earth even as it reaches for the sky, that makes it strong.

Love was all around me. I simply had to find a way to make it thrive.

Whether a plot in a yard or pots in a window, every politically engaged person should have a garden. By politically engaged, I mean everyone with a vested interest in the direction the people on this planet take in relationship to others. We should all take some time to plant life in the soil. Even when such planting isn't easy.

Siempre. Del latín semper, significa "en todo momento". Y se preguntó si su madre pensaría de cuánto tiempo estaban hablando y qué ocurriría después. Porque es evidente que en algún momento las madres deben dejar de cuidar de sus hijos.

I never think that I am the one who must see to it that cherries grow on stalks

No culture of the mind is enough to make a garden out of your soul.

The solution of adult problems tomorrow depends in large measure upon the way our children grow up today. There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves. —MARGARET MEAD

Adult life is a process of becoming a guardian angel to ourselves. We have to learn how to nurture ourselves and how to gather the kind of people around us that can nurture us in the ways we like.

Ira may be the Giving Tree, but the boy with the ax who chops him down, branch by branch - that's me.

Their mother had always stressed the importance of taking care of yourself first, your family second and everyone else not at all.. darkest surrender

Evil isn't born, it's made. One thought and action at a time." I paused for effect. "Take a good look at what you've made.

To a man who has spent centuries seeing to only his own needs, you are indeed high maintenance, but I'm finding I do not mind maintaining you. -Zacharel

Grass isn't greener on the other side. Grass is greener when you water it.

While "caring about" conveys feelings of concern for one's state of being, "caring for" is active engagement in doing something to positively affect it.

Genetics were not important. Affection and protection were the truly important things.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.