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Quotes About Nurture

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
~ James Fenton
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
~ Rajneesh
Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
~ Julian of Norwich
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb.
~ Jay Rock
You know which title I like best? I like to be called mother.
~ Jayne Mansfield
The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.
~ Adolf Hitler
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
For me, my mother is everything.
~ Mario Balotelli
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.
~ Frances Harper
Mother is a verb, not a noun.
~ Shonda Rhimes
A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.
~ Jane Austen
The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?
~ Alice B. Toklas
In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
~ Louis de Bernieres
I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
~ T. D. Jakes
A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.
~ Angela Carter, Wise Children
The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.
~ Laozi
Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.
~ Shonda Rhimes
All that I am my mother made me.
~ John Quincy Adams
Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
~ Jill Scott
Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
~ Khalil Gibran