Quotes About Nurture

I'm taking care of you. You don't need to know anything else.

Is she the only one at fault? For though she's spoiled, and dreadfully so, A girl can't spoil herself, you know. Who spoiled her, then? Ah, who indeed? Who pandered to her every need? Who turned her into such a brat? Who are the culprits? Who did that? Alas! You needn't look so far To find out who these sinners are. They are (and this is very sad) Her loving parents, MUM and DAD. And that is why we're glad they fell Into the garbage chute as well.

When you create space for another to thrive, it always unleashes new energies.

The Mother Thing makes our world.

You see, they assumed that Man has a moral instinct." "Sir? I thought—But he does! I have." "No, my dear, you have a cultivated conscience, a most carefully trained one. Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not—and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.

The "married look," "the "Mom and Dad look," etc., which are not scientific concepts but which everybody can recognize at once, have to do with an acute time-sense. The parent is concerned not just with acquiring bio-survival tickets for personal nurture, but with acquiring tickets for the young, and for the future.

In summary: the bio-survival circuit is DNA-programmed to seek a comfort-safety zone around a mothering organism. If a mother isn't present, the closest substitute in the environment will be imprinted. For the orphan giraffe, a four-wheeled jeep was chosen to stand in for the four-legged mother. The gosling who could not find the round, white body of the mother-goose fixated a round, white ping-pong ball.

Love your children while they are young. Because they grow up soon enough, and then… then the have no need of you.

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

No relationships were made in heaven. They were made because living things were looking for good company. And when you found good company, you valued it deeply and were responsible for its upkeep and well-being.

According to Freud (who was speaking from experience, since he was his mother's darling), spoiled children have a confidence that stays with them all their lives.

Rahim Khan laughed. "Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir

What I really wished I had was a twin, someone who'd cried next to me in the crib, slept beside me, fed from Mother's breast with me. Someone to love helplessly and totally, and in whose face I could always find myself.

People, she believed now, shouldn't be allowed to have new children if they'd already given away all their love to their old ones.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Children aren't colouring books. You don't get to fill them with your favourite colours.

entre las personas que se habían criado del mismo pecho existían unos lazos de hermandad que ni el tiempo podía romper.

There is no crime in anyone's blood any more than there is goodness in the blood of others. Criminals are not born. They are made by hunger, want and injustice.

All of this debris combines to produce a very dark comb, laden with things your brand-new bees don't need to be exposed to and that surely add a level of stress to your colony. Replace older, dark combs routinely to keep the nursery area as clean as possible and to avoid this stress. Every three years, in the spring when most combs are empty, is a good recommendation, but it certainly should occur whenever the comb becomes so dark that when held up to the sun, no light passes through.

You think my kids just popped out of the ground?

I was born small, as so many things are. A marsupial perhaps. People came to me and reached inside me to pass things to each other. I helped them do that. When I was young I had no blood, and people moving things around inside me had to do it by feel.

Be good to yourself. If you don't take care of your body, where will you live?

As the twig is bent, so the tree is inclined"