Quotes About Nurture

The future of our children is on our knees -Precious Musanu

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, Hundreds of bees in the purple clover, Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, But only one mother the wide world over.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be a decent human being. That was all that mattered. An

We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be a decent human being. That was all that mattered.

A soul, if such a thing exists at all, doesn't filter into you at birth through your mother's umbilical cord. Souls come from the people who shape you as you grow.

O ser humano é aquilo que a educação faz dele.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Tan sólo por la educación puede el hombre llegar a ser hombre. El hombre no es más que lo que la educación hace de él (Immanuel Kant)

Mother's milk is soul food for babies. The babies of the world need a lot more soul food.

What is important is to try to develop insights and wisdom rather than mere knowledge, respect someone's character rather than his learning, and nurture men of character rather than mere talents.

Give the dirt a little room.

a good education is precisely designed to correct the instincts of human nature.

The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother's obstinacy, overcomes obstacles to thrust its roots deep into the ground and take advantage of every drop of water. That, my grandmother explained to me, is how flavors are concentrated in the grape.

Affection must be cultivated, Camilo; it has to be watered and tended like a plant

Mothers, on the other hand, are trees with firm roots.

La pasión que los unía desde aquella noche y que alimentaban con extraordinario cuidado, los sostuvo y protegió en los momentos inevitables de adversidad.

El cariño se cultiva, Camilo, hay que regarlo como a una planta, pero nosotros dejamos que se secara.

I can't criticize mothers' obsessive love because that's probably the only reason why species have survived, from bats to technocrats. Nor

Affection must be cultivated, Camilo; it has to be watered and tended like a plant, but we'd let ours dry up.

Love doesn't grow like a wild plant, it needs a lot of care.

down and take care of me