Quotes About Nurture

While not every person is called to be a mother in the biological sense, we're all called to be life-givers and love-bearers. And isn't that really what a mother is—a person who is willing to nurture life and love? Isn't that what the world really needs? In what ways can I emulate Mary as a life-giver and life-nurturer? How can I model my life on that of Mary?

All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

If you're born with a gift, to behave like it's an achievement is not right.

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

When the puppies are born, we must leave them with the mother, and not put them to another dog; for the nurture of strange dogs does not sufficiently contribute to growth; but the milk and breath of their mothers is good for them, and their caresses pleasing.

Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life....

children were the foundation of everything worthwhile in the adult world.

Oftentimes the child is the father of the man.

The mind is like a garden," he told me. "You choose what to grow: weeds or flowers.

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Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?

The undernurtured young adult simply cannot afford to recognize that the parents he relies on are incapable of offering the support that he desperately needs.

Maybe parents feel for every child.

A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.

sparks are fragile things, and they need careful attention.

You take care of the people you love, but it's true, too, that you take care of the things you own.

When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.

Silence nurtures the soul, relaxes the body temple and gives us the strength we need in moments of uncertainty. Welcome it.

Once a baby is born, the parents have around one and a half decades to build his or her character and fill the mind with vigour and virtues.

I teach not by feeding the mind with data but by kindling the mind.

Education is the fertilizer which helps you to grow and bloom to beautify this world.

It is up to you to cultivate your field of mind in order to grow golden crops.

In every man, there is a child. In every woman, there is a mother.

CULTIVATE THE GOOD WITHIN