Quotes About Nurture

Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.

My mission on this planet hasn't changed. I want to nurture the planet, to guide the planet, to help the planet.

I love this planet and I feel that depriving yourself from anything which this planet has to offer is taking you backwards on your road to fitness.

If you bring a child into this world, whether it's planned or an accident, you'd better make sure you can care for it. You have to be around. You make time. It's as simple as that.

I'm a gardener, and I love to plant.

The benefits of letting produce finish on their plant, in its natural environment, is undeniable.

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.

I've just got a flat with a little balcony, so I did that fantastic thing of buying far too many plants and not really knowing what was going to stay alive and what wasn't.

Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.

I don't think it can be in the genes. If you see the amount of footballers, how many sons play football? Not many.

The service of food is to nurture, to please, to nourish.

I don't think people go to musicians for their political points of view. I think your political point of view is circumstances and then how you were nurtured and brought up.

I just don't believe that a woman is naturally closer to her child than a man. Not at all.

People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both.

I do have this belief that we all have a chance to be great, beautiful people based on how we are raised and our surroundings.

The older I got, I started to realize more it's not necessarily that any of us are inherently bad or good; you just kind of carve your own way, and you are your experiences and your surroundings and what you grow up in.

My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.