Quotes About Nurture

Our first concern is his happiness of course; but not just today." Because it wasn't that simple, was it? Raising children was the longest of long games.

But Rosie was also used to conflicting emotions, for she was a mother and knew every moment of every day that no one out in the world could ever love or value or nurture her children as well as she could and yet that it was necessary nonetheless to send them out into that world anyway.

Rosie was horrified that Claude felt so precarious outside of it. But Rosie was also used to conflicting emotions, for she was a mother and knew every moment of every day that no one out in the world could ever love or value or nurture her children as well as she could and yet that it was necessary nonetheless to send them out into that world anyway.

Disasters make us aware that the life force within us needs tending daily. This is why we are here." – Dr. Anne Redelfs

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.

She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.

This much I think I do know—that a society so riven that the spirit of moderation is gone, no court can save; that a society where that spirit flourishes, no court need save; that in a society which evades its responsibility by thrusting upon the courts the nurture of that spirit, that spirit in the end will perish.

Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious gift, an open mind, but it's not passive. You've got to nurture it like a bed of roses; otherwise it will wither and die. Make sure you don't close off your mind to things you find strange. Sometimes they may be the only truth.

Rest now within the peace. Take of the fruit, but guard the seed.

Take care. For yourself, for those you have carried, for the universe, for your deer, for your heart, for your angels, for those you love. There has never been a more selfless selfish act. Take care.

When you learn to nurture and love yourself as you would another When you give yourself that attention Things change very fast Things move in you

The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant.... You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Bean Sprout.

To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

Everything depends on upbringing.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.

A mom's power never really diminishes, no matter how big a child grows.

Every child knows that every grown female person in the world has authority to wash children and to give them food; that is what grown people were made for

The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth. ~ African Proverb

This book is about whether schools and communities choose to squelch or nurture the flame of intelligence in their young people, and what happens when they choose to deny or embrace this national resource.