Quotes About Nurture

los mejores, siempre que optemos por el amor en vez del miedo, dice. El amor no se da como una planta silvestre, se cultiva con mucho cuidado.

Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all - zero!

We've got to understand that the ages of zero to three are the most formative years of a person's life, the time they learn the concept of reward and punishment and develop a conscience, and that 50 percent of all learned human response is learned in the first year of life.

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

The only exercise I got as a kid was fork to mouth. Food was equated with love in my household. I thought you left the table when the zipper was down and you'd explode if you took another bite. I'd eat my plate and then everyone else's leftovers.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Gardening is an exercise in optimism.

'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

He who has daughters is always a shepherd.

What God is to the world, parents are to their children.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

Let us labor to make the heart grow larger as we become older, as spreading oak gives more shelter.

A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

What its children become, that will the community become.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.

I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together, they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow.

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.