Quotes About Nurture

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

When the people call Earth 'Mother,' they take with love and with love give back so that all may live.

Tribe cats are named after the first thing their mother sees, but I thing this would lead to a lot of kits being named 'wall of cave', 'side of cave' and 'floor of cave

I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.

For me, all mother in the world are my goddesses.

Her mother was a cultivated woman - she was born in a greenhouse

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.

A pittifull mother makes a scald head.

So let us sleep outside tonight, Lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely.

REDEF is dedicated to my mother, who nurtured and encouraged my interest in everything and slightly regrets the day she taught me to always ask 'why?'

As I examine my life through this book, I can't help but wonder if my mother was right. Maybe I really was what I ate. And maybe if she'd let me eat a little more sugar, I'd have come out sweeter.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.

We all carry our mothers inside us.

I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.

From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.

I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.