Quotes About Nurture

Uma criança pode não saber como se alimentar, ou o que comer, mas ela conhece a fome.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.

A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.

Like mother, like daughter.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make learning unnecessary.

I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.

"The grass is greener where you water it."

Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.

Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

marriage is the earthly form of love that gives love its place and work and provides for the good care of both bodies and souls. ... Marriage takes love out of the mind and places it responsibly in the world. (Poetry and Marriage)

The first sexual division comes about when nurture is made the exclusive concern of women. This cannot happen until a society becomes industrial; in hunting and gathering and in agricultural societies, men are of necessity also involved in nurture.

We spend our lives trying to fill the empty places in our souls that lobe never got to, where there wasn't enough water to reach our roots; its those deficits that often have the biggest impacts on us and that shape us the most. Whatever the void created in those early formative years, I think it's part of who I became as an adult

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

Yet at a time when people were locked in debate over the significance of nature over nurture, Day's project did not seem quite so outlandish or immoral. As a product of his time, his gender and his rank, he possessed the power and money to pursue his quest, and he therefore believed he had every right to subvert another person to meet his ideals. He was, perhaps, more deluded than wicked

And, father, how can I love you Or any of my brothers more? I love you like the little bird That picks up crumbs around the door.

Girls are born weaned and boys don't ever get weaned.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of mere inertia.

To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not utterly fascinating and precious and never-to-be-too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her.

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.

Life begins the day you start a garden.