Quotes About Nurture

She offends the fundamental human dignity of her son,–she treats him as if he were a doll, when he is, instead, a man confided by nature to her care.

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

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

If salvation and help are to come, it is through the child ; for the child is the constructor of man.

It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

Chain the clay until the mind ripens!

There comes a time when you must get the care and love that maybe you shied from showing others.

All natural birth has a purpose and a plan; who would think of tearing open the chrysalis as the butterfly is emerging? Who would break the shell to pull the chick out?

To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.

The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.

Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.

Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.