Quotes About Nurture

If one could only get hold of the children! I sighed, as I went up the steps into the schoolhouse; catch them young, and put them in a garden, with no older people of their own class for ever teaching them by example what is ugly, and unworthy, and gross.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, so long as the ones who are around make their presence in a long way.

If you don't invest time in your children when they are younger, you'll pay for it when they are older.

I will go back to the great sweet mother,Mother and lover of men, the sea.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see.

Love doesn't have goals or benchmarks or blueprints, but it does have a purpose. The purpose is not to change the people we love, but to give them what they need to thrive. Love's purpose is not to shape our beloved's destiny, but to help them shape their own. It isn't to show them the way, but to help them find a path for themselves, even if the path they take isn't one we would choose ourselves, or even one we would choose for them. The

She wanted to be his candle, to light the darkness in his soul, to burn in the window and show him the way home. She wanted to be his rain, a sweet storm of the senses. She wanted to be his warmth, a solace for his soul.

Every man is what environment and heredity make him.

concebir y alimentar a las crías que engendra el macho de la especie. Y nada más, porque todo lo demás es cultura.

ser una mujer es tener piel de mujer, dos cromosomas X y la capacidad de concebir y alimentar a las crías que engendra el macho de la especia. Y nada más, porque todo lo demás es cultura.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

El hombre se construye a partir de lo que ha conocido en el transcurso de los primeros meses de vida: si no ha experimentado hambre, será uno de los raros elegidos, o de esos raros malditos que no edificarán su existencia en torno a la carencia.".

We are child-bearers primarily, and we are the weaker sex, and once we've given birth to our children, our life is by necessity bound to them. I wouldn't advocate it any other way.

There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.

I am very wealthy and I could nurture a child very well.

Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

In a nursery, if you don't take care of those plants, your profits get lost real quickly. You have to weed. You have to water. You have to nurture. Also, you have to take care of your employees in such a way that they do the same.

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

I've always helped polo to grow.

My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.