Quotes About Nurture

the strongest seeds most need the accompaniment of good air and soil, so the best of human characters turn out the worst when they fall upon an unsuitable soil;

It's written in our DNA somewhere: our children first, the rest of the world second.

Love is when you care for somebody, and you be willing to go out of your way and do anything for that person, and to take care of that person, and if they have problems, that you can help them out any way you know how. If they sick, that you can bring 'em medicine, or give 'em a helping hand. That's what love is.

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.' – Book 3, Chapter 16

It seems reckless, even perverse, to spend so much time and effort nurturing such a deadly thing...Ernie and Pooka seek to understand death and to master their fear of it by domesticating it in the form of the brugmansia.

the grass wasn't greener on the other side of the fence; it was greener where it was watered.

Loving myself meant eating, sleeping, and exercising—taking care of myself emotionally and physically.

I'm being very selfish with myself right now. Taking care of me, feeding my own soul.

Grownups shouldn't turn their backs on children.

Biology is not destiny; you can be the child of an evil person and be a good person

Gratitude must be constantly fed (unlike resentment, which lives on naturally), and physical reminders are essential.

Children are not owned by parents. They have an inalienable right to come into this world to a loving mother and father who are married to each other. And they have an inalienable right to be protected from all who would hurt them.

When taking care of a horse, what one must do is remove everything that is harmful to the horse in order to bring out the horse's own natural vitality. The way to rule the empire is similar.

When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.

Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician.

Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard.

Bairns are certain joy, but nay sma' care

satisfying to be able once again to relieve a pain, reset a joint, repair damage. To take responsibility for the welfare of others made me feel less

like that! Here, just let me tuck that bit in for ye.

don't actually heal people. They heal by themselves. I just … support them." A sound that wasn't quite a laugh made

not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children.

We were definitely not rich, but we were not poor. My mum always came home from work and did everything so that we ate well.

I have a house full of dead succulents but I was very attentive.

It's the water. Everything is driven by the water.