Quotes About Nurture

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.

Eventually, having shoved enough down them to keep them more or less alive, I left them in their strawberry basket on the veranda

Then I got out of bed to have a look and I found that poor rose, crushed in the middle of them, being harried to death. I got him out and put him by himself and gave him half an aspirin. Aspirin is so good for roses. Drachma pieces for the chrysanthemums, aspirin for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.

There are three meanings of bearing love: to endure it, to carry it, and to bring it forth.

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

What is home without a mother?

For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

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

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

He that doth the ravens feed. Yea, providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!

Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side, we overintel-lectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious.

God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.

Tears are Summer showers to the soul.

Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.

Weeds you do not want to grow in your garden, grow at your front door.

travka treba i rosu i kosu.

TRIED SO HARD TO KEEP THEM FROM FAILING THAT I FAILED TO GIVE THEM WHAT THEY NEEDED TO SUCCEED

A MOTHER IS HER CHILDREN'S FIRST TEACHER. HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER CHILDREN BEGINS WHEN THEY ARE IN THE WOMB.