Quotes About Nurture

Trying to separate the contributions of nature and nurture to an attribute is rather like trying to separate the contributions of length and width to the area of a rectangle, which at first glance also seems easy. When you think about it carefully, though, it proves impossible.

Did one learn or was one shaped?

Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.

When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed.

Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow

That was the glory of man - to nurture and maintain knowledge.

The soil needs the seed, and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other.

When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped, nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place, and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development.

J]e t'ai dressée à te soumettre, de même qu'une fleur subit le soleil et la pluie.

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together

And from that time on the boys were no longer called Elder and Younger, but they were given school names by the old teacher, and this old man, after inquiring into the occupation of their father, erected two names for the sons; for the elder, Nung En, and for the second Nung Wen, and the first word of each name signified one whose wealth is from the earth.

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

Living well is an art that can be developed.

And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

Any man who bears the ability of a polymath shall not be interfered by specialty, he needs discipline to manage his behaviors and nurture his creativity.

Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower, which must be cautiously cared forand protected, from the harsh elementsof "human weather.

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

The grapes he grew were living beings to him, to be cherished and nourished and protected. And he felt the same way about his wife. He cherished her like a precious gift, and she blossomed and thrived in the warmth of his love, and loved him just as deeply.

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He had had a dream, and dreams are heavy things, requiring constant care and pruning.

Number of children fathered got little enough to do with being a good daddy.' - Louisa Mae Cardinal