Quotes About Nurture

I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

It is not the child who is taught about love but the child who has experienced love that grows into a healthy, happy, well-adjusted adult.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

Because the truth is, the world will probably whittle your daughter down. But a mother never should.

Because if you don't preserve yourself, keep enough for yourself, then of course you have nothing to give.

I decided to take the love I'd have for a child and give it to myself instead.

Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!

Teach your sweet child to leave the beautiful flowers in the soil.

You can be a flower in somebody's garden or a pig or the sunshine or a crow or a nightingale! Be something nice in someone else's garden.

You want to do something good for the flowers? Then, keep the flowers in the soil, in nowhere else!

I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

That's universal — we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

Self-expression has to come out pure. It has to have an environment waiting for it. It has to have a garden it can plant itself in.

You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.

The prophets of every age come from the hands of attentive mothers

O amor não é a semente. O amor é o semear.

grão a grão o papa se enche de galinhas

A redondura das ilhas, dizia, é o mar que faz. A beleza dessa menina, meu sobrinho, é você que lhe põe. As mulheres são muito extensas, a gente viaja-lhes, a gente sempre se perde.

A minha mãe costuma dizer que a água arredonda as pedras como a mulher molda a alma dos homens.

Too many times adults are insensitive to the nurture and instruction of children. Notice the balance! On the one hand there is training, nurturing, or instruction of a child. On the other, the warning or instructional dimension is emphasized. Training in God's Word must have a relational aspect.

Pomona Sprout

This is all birthed and nurtured in worship.

There is something soothing about working in the yard. Planting seeds and seeing them poke green out of the dirt. And it gets you out of the house with out going too far.