Quotes About Nurture

For someone's character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.

Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.

Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.

Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little stream in the earth by which the smallest flowers are watered.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

For now, after a couple of centuries of believing that children were born either bad or blank, children were presumed to be born good. It was the mother's job to protect them from any corrupting forces, to preserve them in a suffocating innocence for as long as possible.

We expect them to acquire a full mouth of teeth and learn where to deploy them (apples: yes; siblings: no).

you really got to do it--it's like you don't know what love is until you have a kid.

I will love myself, and my body, for what it can do- because it is strong enough to lift, to walk, to ride a bicyle up a hill, to embrace the people I love and hold them fully, and to nurture a new life. I will love myself because I am sturdy. Because I did not -will not- break.

It's better to fill a Childs Belly than his Eye.

I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.

God sustains you and me: "He himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.... `For in him we live and move and have our being"' (Acts 17:25,28). He supplies our daily food (see 2 Corinthians 9:10). Our times are in His hands (see Psalm 31:15). Every breath we breathe is a gift from God, every bite of food we eat is given to us from His hand, every day we live is determined by Him.

Sometimes, big trees grow out of acorns. I think I heard that from a squirrel.

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

In a garden, things grow . . . but first, they must wither; trees have to lose their leaves in order to put forth new leaves, and to grow thicker and stronger and taller. Some trees die, but fresh saplings replace them. Gardens need a lot of care. But if you love your garden, you don't mind working in it, and waiting. Then in the proper season you will surely see it flourish.

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.

It is an enduring satisfaction for our species to make little systems and tend to them.