Quotes About Nurture

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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Grandchildren would be her second chance to get it right. Now she had the time and the eggs to spare, and she would be present with her grandchildren.

I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

If it were possible for every person to own a tree and to care for it, the good results would be beyond estimation.

The long-standing dichotomy between nature and nurture in explaining the etiology of mental health problems, while outdated and derided, continues to influence diagnosis and treatment. We are often the prisoners of our mental and disciplinary silos.

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

The meaning of life is the smile of a mother.

So many of us resist the truth that self-care is not self-indulgence, but it is a fact that you cannot pour from an empty cup. Or a shattered one.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

We shall sooner have the bird by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

a baby would be with her parents.

Stories are for people what water is for plants.

In a lot of ways, this is a book about all the ways that people life you up and take care of you.

The hardest task for a parent was to encourage them to grow, but not too fast for their own good.

May our sanctuary give us sustenance and nurture us.

These three little kittens opened their eyes when they grew old enough, and thought there was nothing so nice in all this wonderful world as their own dear mother, although she told them of a great many nice things, like milk and bread, which they should have when they could go up to the big house where she had her breakfast, dinner, and supper.

There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on, and the giving only makes you feel better. The others are just words on a page.

I'm talking about kids, Mrs. H. Terrible, dreadful, blasted awful kids. They've all got a darkness inside them. They've all got the capacity for evil. Give them free range over a piece of territory, like that out there, and you've got Lord of the Flies. You cannot afford to take your eye off the ball for a second. Not for even a second....

Cooking doesn't just nurture the recipient; it nurtures the chef.

But she is remembering now. Cooking doesn't just nurture the recipient; it nurtures the chef.