Quotes About Nurture

As Parker Palmer said, "Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.

The Devil isn't made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there.

When it comes to our educational systems, perhaps the most important question that we can ask is this: What is the purpose of education? Is it to impart knowledge and facts or is it to nurture curiosity, effortful problem solving, and the capacity for lifelong learning?

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. – Frederick Douglass, African-American social reformer and a leader of the abolitionist movement

They mess you up, your mom and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had, and add some extra, just for you.

you can't keep children in the nursery forever. If you do, they never become grown-ups, but they're not really children either. They are just pets.

Cleansed and newly born, we step from the shower and wrap ourselves in a towel. Mother Earth waits with open arms.

I wonder if it's cold fathers who make the sensitive sons.

We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

I need to be loved. I need to be nurtured. I also need peace and stability in my relationships. I can't be in volatile relationships.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

I really believe that parents need to know they are shaping the future of their children.

I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.

Before my son was even born, he already had two shelves of books.

Ships are like children: they need individual attention.

There's nothing more important than the health of our babies.

I look like my mother but behave like my father.

The main things are to commit to some simple behaviors—meditating, exercising, getting enough sleep—and to practice altruism.… And nurture your social connections." If

We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.

Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch.

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

I raised that kid like I was running an egg-and-spoon race through a minefield, and he was the egg.