Quotes About Nurture

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

The life of the imagination is a vital element of our total nature. If we starve it or pollute it the quality of our life is depressed or soiled.

A child cannot pay for its mother's milk.

The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have.

Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.

A trick to play in your mind when your troubled. You think of yourself as a tree, with all the rings inside. And every ring is someone you care about, or a place you've been. You carry them with you wherever you go.

But it kind of feels nice to nurture her resentment, to foster it. It's something she can savor and control, this feeling of having been wronged by the world.

My birth mother brought me into this world, but it was my adoptive parents who gave me life.

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

Highly scheduled lives and early academics aren't what our children's brains evolved to need.

Ancient virtues may lay for many years dormant. It does not mean that they are dead. We Hobbits need merely discover them, plant them in new soil, tend our little garden with care, and wait with sunlit hope for them to spring leaf and flower again in a new age.

Culture was actually humanity's attempt to extend the womb.

God has predestined every single one of us for fruitfulness. (See John 15.) We need to be familiar with a place of divine intimacy in which we are so consumed by the Holy Spirit that we will nurture and protect the seed He places in us. We need to fearlessly step out and activate His promises. It is intimacy that gives us the grace and strength we need to push through suffering, pain, and inconvenience.

You have to keep on with a house, day after day, I think. Heating, cleaning, opening and closing windows, making sounds to fill the silence, cooking and washing up, laundering and polishing. As soon as you stop, there may as well never have been any life at all. A house dies as quickly as a body.

Mother, give me the sun.

What the sunshine is to the field and to the flowers the Holy Spirit is to the life of man.

Sometimes it's easier to care for others than it is to care for yourself.

The family is the simplest and smallest unit of society and the real fountain of culture. If this fountain remains pure, man's culture has promise. But if it becomes polluted, all the rest will turn to dust and ashes, since the home is the foundation of the entire social structure.

Every baby needs a lap.

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

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