Quotes About Nurture

It is no small merit in God's eyes to bring up children well.

A gardener! Isn't that the perfect description of what a real businessman is?

I'm going to call you Motherwort," I whispered, petting the baby fur as she scarfed down the food. "Wort for short, because motherwort is so good at healing girls, and this one right here"—I jabbed my thumb at myself—"has had a day.

You are more capable of being loved than you understand. And—Celeste, this is important—you nurture and love and protect more than anyone I have known. Or could know. Don't take that away from me. From us.

In every moment of every day of my life, I get to wake up and work with amazing people and nurture them in the way that I might have nurtured my son or my grandchildren that he might have had.

When Daddy goes to work, there's a mouth to feed, a point to life and a reason to do things

The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.

Flowers are prettiest where they are watered the most.

The hen that lays the most eggs deserves the most food.

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

Seeds are proof that God puts within you what is supposed to enrich the world around you.

Seeds are proof that the greatest growth takes place in the dark.

There haven't been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That's not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

There's no real substitute for the care of the real mother.

Nurture your imagination with hard work, positive energy, ease, and self-encouragement. Cherish your dreams and keep them safe. When others try to tear you down, raise yourself up by knowing God is in your secret fort; he's in your house.

Then there are Root People. When I find someone who is like the roots of a tree, I know I've found someone special. Root People may be hard to find because they're

And then… I stopped running. Why do we stop doing the very things that nurture us physically and emotionally, and feed our spiritual growth? It's a big question, one always worth contemplating. At this particular time, I stopped running because I was drawn so fully into my work that my focus narrowed and I shut out some of the things that truly mattered most. The desire to achieve in my career became all-consuming, and for a while, I lost my sense of balance

The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.

Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.

Friends are flowers in life's garden

Permissiveness and inconsistency with growing children do them more harm than some physical ailments.

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.