Quotes About Nurture

We can give only as much love as we were given ourselves.

We are made for loving. If we dont love, we will be like plants without water.

God Couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers..

The palm on your fevered brow, the soft kisses when you need them most, the grip that steadies you on rocky roads, the hand that feeds and nurtures you, the voice that tells you that you are loved, the shadow that walks beside you unconditional and enduring, a mothers love.

The only love that I really believe in is a mothers love for her children.

You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. You shall quench my thirst and I will feed you fruit, though time takes my seed. And when I'm lost and can tell nothing of this earth you will give me hope. And my voice you will always hear. And my hand you will always have. For I will shelter you. And I will comfort you. And even when we are nothing left, not even in death, I will remember you.

The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do well. Your job as parent is to bring out this quality and cherish it until the day your kids leave home, and then some.

Our job is to be fruit holders--fruit bearers vs. fruit producers.

Sometimes there's someone who makes you feel so at home that you flourish.

Parents have two primary biblical responsibilities toward their children, to bring them up: (1) in the discipline of the Lord, and (2) in the instruction of the Lord.

God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics.

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young?

Charity and beating begins at home. John Fletcher, 1579-1625, Wit Without Money

Women loved their babies from the second they pushed them into the world; they were programmed to love them, feed them, and protect them, no matter what.

Your children were given to you and you had to protect them as best you could. It was as simple as that.

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart; one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

Butterfly Garden is especially important to me because it delves into sibling relationships and family hierarchy as children and as adults. It also deals with metamorphosis on various levels and an eventual letting go… of old beliefs, habits, rituals. Just as the butterfly sheds its cocoon to emerge in dazzling splendor, so too, if given proper nurturing and guidance, do we.

relationships are like gardens. They require constant tending and vigilance to prevent weeds, encourage growth, and promote a bountiful harvest.

Mothers always knew what was best for their children, and it was a mother's duty to steer the child back onto the right track, especially if said child had gone astray—

God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Who ran to help me when I fell, Or kissed the place to make it well?....My mother.

Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all.