Quotes About Nurture

Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.

Writers are made, they are not born.

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

Relationships are more important than life,but it is important for those relationships to have life in them

Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.

Be fiercely protective of your imagination, and nurture it.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. William Makepeace Thackeray

No one can wound us more than those supposed to nurture: our parents, our spouses, our churches. The chasm between expectation and reality is particularly grim in supposed safe places.

As I examine my life through this book, I can't help but wonder if my mother was right. Maybe I really was what I ate. And maybe if she'd let me eat a little more sugar, I'd have come out sweeter.

Umhegen, verhätscheln und verwöhnen Sie sich, als seien Sie der großartigste Mensch, den Sie je kennengelernt haben.

You cannot give what you do not have, so if you want to help others you have to take care of yourself first.

Kinder, Kirche, Küche: children, church, kitchen; this

The old man would call us into his study and say the same three words. "Invest. Cultivate. Create.

This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us

These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated soul of trees which scatter their seed about their feet, with little conception of any larger world beyond the dun rocks among which they vegetated.

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