Quotes About Nurture

When you have children, you almost feel like you've made your contribution to the survival of the human species. It's your way of passing the baton.

I only survived because of my mother's love and care.

When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.

Even if you are a superstar, you have to give your audience some content. Because there is so much good content out there that people consume today. To sustain this, you have to nurture good content and writers.

Nature nurtures our souls and lifts our spirits. But it also sustains us and our economy - and it is for this reason that we take it for granted at our peril.

To me, loving your kids means teaching them to make smart choices from an early age - not just handing over a sweet treat.

Don't be guilty of ignoring symptoms of rebellion when your children are small. Don't simply excuse it as a stage they are going through and think that they will grow out of it. If you ignore it when they are small, you won't be able to handle it when they get older and the rebellion has had time to develop into a strong force.

If you want small group leaders to make a weekly investment in kids, then you need to make a weekly investment in small group leaders.

What if you started acting like what you do for kids is more important than anything else you do.

every parent will leave a personal legacy (though not all parents will leave behind an inheritance). what i give to my children or what i do for my children is not as important as what i leave in them.

YOU CAN SHAPE A KID'S FAITH BY CONNECTING THEM TO CARING ADULTS WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN THEIR LIFE.

1. Plant your future to become the best organic version of yourself.

Relationships are like soup: they are better the longer they simmer

Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to give anybody.

accompany Nurse Grafton

He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that they are His own: and the new-shorn sheep do most visibly bear His name or mark; when it is almost worn out and scarce discernible on them that have the longest fleece.

Commit to unspoiling your child, and your child will follow.

Taking care of your marriage and your partner is an act of love for your children.

The contrast between genetic and environmental, between nature and nurture, is not a contrast between fixed and changeable. It is a fallacy of biological determinism to say that if differences are in the genes, no change can occur.

our basic mandate as Christian men is to cultivate, build, and grow (both things and people), but also to stand guard so that people and things are kept safe-so that the fruit of past cultivating and nurturing is preserved.

It is the male arm around the shoulder or pat on the back that God allows to have the quickest access to the heart of a child or employee. Men who are seeking to live out the Masculine Mandate will be nurturers.

Once the switch of parenthood is thrown, it chages you for ever & you can never exchange the extra pull of humanity it gives you.

Child-rearing is not some special part of life, set aside for some temporary purpose and put aside at a certain age. It is the principal business of life, the search for the condition that is naturally promised for us by the fact of our life. And we must do it by ourselves, one by one.

Not everything we plant will take. Not every plant will thrive. But together we can watch the ones that do fill up our garden.