Quotes About Nurture

I would fly our child wherever she needed to go.

Llevaría volando a nuestro hijo a donde quiera que necesitara ir. -Galen

Maybe, when all was said and done, that was where love began and what kept it alive: the simple, everyday act of paying attention.

We fight evil by] "We kiss our children. We make sticky lemon cake for our husband. We cherish our friends. We leave the great hedge standing tall as a haven for birds, and mice and spiders. We defeat evil every time we commit acts of kindness. When necessary, we hit it with a rock.

People's souls are like gardens. You can't turn your back on someone because his garden's full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.

Para alguien con alma de jardinero, los jardines son especiales, más que una casa.

Yet the explanation was simple. These memories had died of inanition. You've got the pay visits to your memories from time to time. You've got to feed them, take them out and air them, show them around, tell them to other people or to yourself. If you don't, they waste away.

We have learned that "politics is downstream from culture, not the other way around," says Bill Wichterman, policy advisor to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. "Real change has to start with the culture. All we can do on Capitol Hill is try to find ways government can nurture healthy cultural trends.

Mothers must do all they can to nurture security and acceptance and never compare one sister to another. Each daughter will have special gifts and special needs. It is mother's job to help identify these gifts and encourage the exercise of them.

A child's growth is defined entirely by the adult that raises him.

And do you do the same now, with other children? With the children in your care?" But Mrs. Montgomery-Taylor, now Mrs. Williams, has always been shrewd, even in her madness. "All children need different kinds of love," she says. "We do what's needed to care for them." Children are born so small. It does not matter if they are boys or girls. They are all born so weak and so powerless.

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

No sacrifice is too great for our children. Whatever we do for them comes back to us in blessings a thousandfold.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.

What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

People aren't born with kindness, it grows with them...

Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!

The most powerful bond we know of is the bond between mother and child, and we break it in order to make "comfort foods" for ourselves" Michael Schwarz

Everything we do, then, as teachers, has moral overtones. Through dialogue, modeling, the provision of practice, and the attribution of best motive, the one-caring as teacher nurtures the ethical idea. She cannot nurture the student intellectually without regard for the ethical ideal unless she is willing to risk producing a monster" (p. 179).

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the result.