Quotes About Nurture

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

I just think that gardening is about the future, a slow thing, that is deep and spiritual as well as spiritually rewarding.

Like most parents, I want everything for my kids that I didn't have. But I don't intend to spoil them. I just enjoy everything that comes naturally with parenthood.

My parents both worked full-time flipping burgers at the local fast-food joint, and my grandmother looked after us. English was her second language, so instead of books, I learned spoken French nursery rhymes and curse words.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.

At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours.

As the family goes, so go the children.

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

The gift of the Holy Ghost is as important to man as sunshine and water are to plants.

God made only water, but man made wine.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Men are born, and then they're formed.

Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.