Quotes About Nurture

She felt if she ever had children she would love them no less when they were twenty than when they were two; they might need you more at twenty, she thought. What do you really need when you're two? In the hospital, the babies were the easiest patients. The older they got, the more they needed; and the less anyone wanted or loved them.

Am I not here, for I am your mother?

Love is a flower you got to let it grow.

Love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep on watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.

Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

... education is the second food a parent can give a child.

It is education that grows flowers in innocent minds to reveal beauty.

A kindergarten teacher is a woman who knows how to make little things count.

The momma bears are demanding, 'Protect our kids.'

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow.

When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.

Faith is like a tender plant, rooted in Christ alone, watered by the Spirit and the Word, strengthened by the winds of adversity and the sunshine of blessing.

Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom.