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Quotes About Nurture

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
How much more beautiful would be the world and the society in which we live if...every mother regarded her children as the jewels of her life, as gifts from the God of heaven, who is their Eternal Father, and brought them up in true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value. Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I remind mothers everywhere of the sanctity of your calling. No other can adequately take your place. No responsibility is greater, no obligation more binding than that you rear in love and peace and integrity those whom you have brought into the world.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I believe that it should be the blessing of every child to be born into a home where that child is welcomed, nurtured, loved, and blessed with parents, a father and a mother, who live with loyalty to one another and to their children.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I hope that you mothers will realize that when all is said and done, you have no more compelling responsibility, nor any laden with greater rewards, than the nurture you give your children in an environment of security, peace, companionship, love, and motivation to grow and do well.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Our individual testimonies of these truths are the basis of our faith. We must nurture them. We must cultivate them. We can never forsake them. We can never lay them aside. Without them we are nothing. With them we are everything.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
manual of virtuous character traits that describes qualities to nurture in ourselves and to seek in our friends and lovers. At the top of the list would be kindness, a willingness to give of oneself to another. This most desirable of virtues governs all the others, including a capacity for empathy and love. Like other forms of art, we may find it hard to define, but when we are in its presence, we feel it.
~ Gordon Livingston
Years of research and study show that a child was designed to be raised and educated at home because the most important element in a child's development towards maturity is his attachment to those who are responsible for him (a.k.a. parents)
~ Gordon Neufeld
Suck, baby, suck! mother's love grows by giving, Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting...
~ Charles Lamb
Mother knows breast.
~ Author Unknown
Mother's creed: Breastfeed.
~ Terri Guillemets
He that has no children brings them up well.
~ Proverb
Whoever needs milk, bows to the animal.
~ Yiddish saying
You know you're a grown-up when your houseplants are alive and you can't smoke any of them.
~ Author Unknown
Before healing others, heal yourself.
~ Author Unknown
It is said that the body will heal itself of many things, if we will allow it to do so and not overburden it with remedies — the same is true of the soul and the heart.
~ Terri Guillemets
Don't feed your heart anxiety — it's only hungry for love.
~ Terri Guillemets
Hope is the gardener of the heart.
~ J. De Finod
All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden.
~ Terri Guillemets
But the Wild is the Wild, and motherhood is motherhood, at all times fiercely protective whether in the Wild or out of it; and the time was to come when the she-wolf
~ Jack London
But to force growth is to kill it.
~ Jacqueline Carey
I had to cope with her right from when I was little, I looked after her and you.
~ Jacqueline Wilson