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Quotes About Nurture

Words are seeds. They grow with time. Wisdom is to plant in your mind words that you desire to harvest.
~ Grace Penuel
A flowing stream waters the flowers.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
~ Grace Kelly
For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.
~ Isabel Allende
Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
~ Eleanor Brownn
There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
~ Olive Schreiner
To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.
~ Kate Braverman
The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.
~ Mother Teresa
Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.
~ Leymah Gbowee
Yes, women are homemakers - and the entire earth is our home. Yes, we are here to take care of the children - and every child in the world is one of our own.
~ Marianne Williamson
I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
~ Gail Kelly
Some people collect coins. Some people collect rocks. Some people collect stamps. I colllect kids and hope I can do something for them.
~ Jesse White
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
A woman can produce what no man can: a child.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
~ John Abbott
The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.
~ Aristotle
A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.
~ Austin O'Malley
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
~ William Penn
The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.
~ Horace Mann
It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
~ Pliny the Elder
Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
~ Henry David Thoreau
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.
~ John Noble
A child is an angel dependent on man
~ Joseph de Maistre