Quotes About Nurture

The letter to the church at Ephesus reminds us how easily the church's early days of passionate love for Christ can grow cold as the years go by. But Christ never meant for our duty to Him, even faithful duty, to replace our love for Him. The church's "first love" for Jesus Christ has to be continually nurtured, and serve as the genuine motivation for service to our Lord.

Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.

It bears remembering that the purpose of a free press, like the purpose of free speech, is to nurture the mind, communicate ideas, challenge ideologies, share notions, inspire creativity, and advocate and reinforce America's founding principles—that is, to contribute to a vigorous, productive, healthy, and happy individual and to a well-functioning civil society and republic.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Our limited data force a sense of historical fragility: even as I nurture interpretation, I continually run the risk of creating it in my own image.122

My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.

I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

I believe the children are our future

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.

Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.

Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.

Children aren't just our future. They're our present.

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Under any system of society ... the family holds the future in its bosom.

As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.

We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future.

When certain seeds are planted, they nearly always grow.

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.