Quotes About Nurture

Being born is like this: The sunflowers slowly turn their corollas toward the sun. The wheat is ripe. The bread is eaten with sweetness. My impulse connects to that of the roots of the trees

An egg is a thing that must be careful. That's why the chicken is the egg's disguise. The chicken exists so that the egg can traverse the ages. That's what a mother is for.

No matter what his or her age, when a child has a serious and productive interest in something, do anything possible to feed it. Be the perfect enabler.

Parents care more than any institution about their children.

One parent is enough to spoil you but discipline takes two. I got too much of what I wanted and not enough of what I needed.

Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Water the fruit trees, and don't water the thorns. Be generous to what nurtures the spirit and God's luminous reason-light. Don't honor what causes dysentry and knotted up tumors.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Children are our greatest natural resource.

In soft regions are born soft men.

So I entered parenting with only 3 clear goals: to love, to cherish, and to listen." - Melissa Ridge Carter

I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on who went before?

Then after a day or two, Anne Madeleine simply added them to the number of her five children, who are fed on sight and conducted through the countryside on forced marches in an effort to subdue their spirits.

Bawling, strong, one hour old, plucked from the cradle: he kissed the infant's fluffy skull and said, I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before?

he kissed the infant's fluffy skull and said, I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children if each generation does not improve on what went before.

He says he needs mothering." "....Even if he didn't need mothering, which after all is only another way of saying he needs a slave.

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.

Even love matures. It's like a flower. Cherish it while it blooms.

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.

It is my belief that books are living things.... And as living things, they need to be protected.