Quotes About Nurture

Parents existed to be used by their children.

When meaning is honored at the top of any organization, it can be easy to bring meaning to our jobs. It's a natural reflection of meaningful values. If we are valued and appreciated, if our well-being is nurtured, we feel a part of a meaningful whole. But soulfulness can trickle up, too. It might be more difficult to honor meaning at work with little evidence from above, but it also might be more important to do so.

Every human being is a Leonardo da Vinci. The only problem is that he doesn't know it. His parents didn't know it, and they didn't treat him like a Leonardo. Therefore he didn't become like a Leonardo. That's my basic theory.47

'Tis education forms the common mind:Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

Here is a Christian so committed to the well-being of other Christians, especially new Christians, that he is simply burning up inside to be with them, to help them, to nurture them, to feed them, to stabilize them, to establish an adequate foundation for them. Small wonder, then, that he devotes himself to praying for them when he finds he cannot visit them personally.4

Good shepherds love their sheep and spare no effort when leading them to green pastures and clear water.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Tears are summer showers to the soul.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.

There's a certain amount of pleasure in being able to create something and watch it grow.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.

I think we're all blessed with gifts and I was lucky I just found out what mine was early on and have planted that seed and tried to water it every day.

My great joy these days is giving palm trees water. Simple as that.

We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.