Quotes About Nurture

There are no bad plants or bad men. There is only bad husbandry.

The soul of a young girl should not be left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively are formed there, as in a dark chamber.

The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.

The mind is a garden

C?ci dragostea e ca un arbore, ea creÈ™te de la sine, îÈ™i înfige r?d?cini adânci în toat? fiinÈ›a noastr? È™i continu? s? înverzeasc? pe o inim? distrus?.

With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle! He added, after a pause: Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.

To shape the soul of a young girl, all the nuns in the world are not equal to one mother.

Ystäväni, painakaa mieleenne, ettei ole olemassa enempää huonoja kasveja kuin huonoja ihmisiäkään. On vain huonoja viljelijöitä. (Jean Valjean)

He had but one word for both these kinds of toil; he called them gardening. The mind is a garden, said he.

Cultiven la cabeza del hombre del pueblo, quítenle las malas hierbas, riéguenla, fecúndenla, ilumínenla, llénenla de moralidad, utilícenla: así no tendrán que cortarla

Want de liefde is als een boom, die vanzelf groeit, zijn wortels diep uit doet lopen in heel ons wezen en die blijft uitlopen ook als het hart verbrijzeld is.

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young

After a pause he added: My friends remember this:There is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man.There are only bad cultivators.

My friends, remember this: there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is in the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is in my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is in the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

A watering system had kept everything alive; plants, like people, learned to grow in rocky terrain.

is not biology that determines fatherhood. It is love.

Like geese," she whispered into the tiny, shell-pink ear, "their babies imprint on the mama in the first sighting and never forget.

Snow is a poor substitute for soil

our ability to raise our children is always colored by the lives we've lived before they came along.

because our ability to raise our children is always colored by the lives we've lived before they came along. I

the thing is, parents make all sorts of errors, because our ability to raise our children is always colored by the lives we've lived before they came along.

Hush, little baby, don't say a word. Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird. If that mockingbird don't sing, Mama's gonna buy you a diamond ring,

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.