Quotes About Nurture

I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing.

When you look into your baby's eyes," Lacy said softly, "you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won't become.

I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.

W.S. Merwin, What Is a Garden?

Humanity owes the child the best it has to give.

If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

The first law of humanity is not to kill your children.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Sometimes big trees grow out of acorns - I think I heard that from a squirrel.

I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it.

You must feed them, Anne, else they eat their toys.

Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, " she said.

I'm half good and I'm half bad. My mama is a very good girl and my daddy is a very bad boy. And I guess that leaves me somewhere sort of...here.