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Quotes About Nurture

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live
~ Toni Morrison
What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.
~ Toni Morrison
This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late. At least on the edge of my town, among the garbage and the sunflowers of my town, it's much, much, much too late.
~ Toni Morrison
Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.
~ Toni Morrison
You are about to find out what it takes, how the world is, how it works and how it changes when you are a parent. Good luck and God help the child.
~ Toni Morrison
This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live.
~ Toni Morrison
A daughter is a woman that cares about where she come from and takes care of them that took care of her.
~ Toni Morrison
Her garden was not Eden; it was so much more than that.
~ Toni Morrison
I don't care what she is. Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
~ Toni Morrison
Taught me a lesson I should have known all along. What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.
~ Toni Morrison
I even think now that the land of the entire country was hostile to marigolds that year. This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late. At least on the edge of my town, among the garbage and the sunflowers of my town, it's much, much, much too late.
~ Toni Morrison
They beat their children with one hand and stole for them with the other. The hands that felled trees also cut umbilical cords; the hands that wrung the necks of chickens and butchered hogs also nudged African violets into bloom; the arms that loaded sheaves, bales, and sacks rocked babies into sleep. They patted biscuits into flaky ovals of innocence—and shrouded the dead. They plowed all day and came home to nestle like plums under the limbs of their men.
~ Toni Morrison
I even think now that the land of the entire country was hostile to marigolds that year. This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live.
~ Toni Morrison
Life supports what supports more of life
~ Tony Robbins
Though grafted at the same time, they had grown up to be different sizes; it always surprised James that the trees could turn out as varied as his children.
~ Tracy Chevalier
Nurture children with a book, it helps to give them confidence and opens up their world.
~ Kerry Kennedy
See, mis tuleb asjatundjatel kogemuse kaudu omandada, on psühhopaatidel algusest peale käes.
~ Kevin Dutton
Optimism is the best fertilizer.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
Your private logic is shaped both by who you innately were when you were born and who you became through your family environment.
~ Kevin Leman
This was how you did it, how you raised children. You built them a house that was impervious to danger and then you gave them every single thing that they could ever want, no matter how impossible. You read to them at night. Why couldn't people figure this out?
~ Kevin Wilson
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
~ Khalil Gibran
We felt the one thing the system feared was angry women. We wanted milk for the children.
~ Kim Chernin
Parentified children learn to take responsibility for themselves and others early on. They tend to fade into the woodwork and let others take center stage. This extends into adulthood - adult children may put others' needs before their own. They may have difficulty accepting care and attention.
~ Kimberlee Roth
But what do I do with them?" Miss Smith said "I've never been around children." "Feed them, bathe them, make sure they get plenty of sleep," the doctor said. "They're no more diffi cult than puppies, really." He grinned
~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley