Quotes About Nurture

And it was the landscape that formed us, that made us who we were as we grew in it, that affected everything.

I watched that plant in the office every day. Watered it; misted it. I loved thinking about it like G.T. said, but part of me was worried the tree surgery wouldn't take. Something would go wrong and then I"d be stuck with a metaphor that couldn't go the distance.

Our mind is like a field in which many seeds germinate.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

It is precisely women's experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know God the birthing mother. A world that does not preserve the planet, does not know God the creator. A world that does not honor the spirit of compassion, does not know God the spirit. God the lawgiver, God the judge, God the omnipotent being have consumed Western spirituality and, in the end, shriveled its heart.

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.

Coddling a body cheats 'em out of finding their own strength.

If life was really a journey, then children had to be the center of the wheel that moved it.

Any of us who have raised children know, as John F. Kennedy once said, that "to have children is to give hostages to fate.

Who ran to help me when I fell, and would some pretty story tell, or kiss the place to make it well, My mother.

We must save the world, one child at a time.

For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves.

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other, the tranquil sky reflected on the face of the mother nursing her child.

You wouldn't maintain a house like that' you'd feet it and water it. You'd have to give it nourishment and love it to keep it alive and healthy.

Today, my small child, Joyce, love your self's self where it lives.

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

It is not enough for a gardener to love flowers; he must also hate weeds

Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

I'm a planner, and most networks don't plan. Bravo doesn't plan. Bravo is lucky in a lot of ways - they've got a lot of great talent, but at the same time, they don't nurture it. They lost 'Project Runway.'

I think God asks us to promise to replenish the planet and to pay 100% attention to our young so that they will develop character and a good conscience.

The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes.