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Quotes About Nurture

The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?
~ John Steinbeck
When you see good or bad in your children, you're seeing what you instilled in them after they cleared the womb.
~ John Steinbeck
I don't very much believe in blood," said Samuel. "I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can't make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.
~ John Steinbeck
I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb.
~ John Steinbeck
Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
~ John Stuart Mill
Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.
~ John Updike
The main things are to commit to some simple behaviors—meditating, exercising, getting enough sleep—and to practice altruism.… And nurture your social connections.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Love is what we were borne with. Fear is what we learned here.
~ Marianne Williamson
Speaking for myself, my first priority is to take care of my family. That's first and foremost.
~ Yo Gotti
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.
~ C.S. Lewis
You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you'll be able to take care of everyone else even better.
~ Deepak Chopra
we must take care of our families wherever we find them.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.
~ Zig Ziglar
A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed.
~ Jim Bunning
You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.
~ Peter Koestenbaum
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
~ Mother Teresa
There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.
~ Colum McCann
U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can't feed them both.
~ Zig Ziglar
Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.
~ Penelope Leach
How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.
~ Kevin Leman
I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.
~ Steve Zahn
I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.
~ Henry Cavill
I want to be able to take care of my family.
~ Master P
Family home evening is for everyone.... We need the strength that comes from family home evening.
~ James E. Faust