Quotes About Nurture

I would be a pillow at the small of her back, a glass of cold water on a tray, a cloth shielding her from the sun. I would be a dictionary holding all the languages known and unknown. I would save everything.

Remember that one of the best things you can do for your daughter is take care of each other.

need to protect my boys from their … poison.

For all for children To whom we entrust the future

Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children--children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what they need. It can be a pretty rough process, too

Kako li tek svijet zbunjuje novoro?en?e, koje za prizore pred svojim o?ima nema imena, a ni pojam o imenima. Ista je pretpostavljala da dijete po?ne od maj?inog lica i njedara i otuda nastavlja dalje - i da nakon cijelog životnog vijeka još ima što nau?iti.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation

He should be in bed, she decided. Hers, by preference.

More and more he was becoming convinced that it was only through children that one could connect with anything anymore, that in this life it was only through children that one came home, became a home, that one was no longer a visitor.

Those who are nurtured best, survive best.

Those who are nurtured best survive best. It turns out that our emotional resilience and our ability to learn are inextricably interwoven.

Treat the earth kindly, my friends, and it will give you comfort, security, and all a man may need. If you plant a flake of gold in the earth, will anything come of it? But plant a seed and it will repay you many times over.

Folks talk a lot about the maternal feeling in women, but they say nothing about man's need to protect and care for someone; yet the one feeling is as basic as the other.

Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only.

she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

F]or in this queer world of ours, fatherly and motherly hearts often beat warm and wise in the breasts of bachelor uncles and maiden aunts; and it is my private opinion that these worthy creatures are a beautiful provision of nature for the cherishing of other people's children. They certainly get great comfort out of it, and receive much innocent affection that otherwise would be lost.

I sell my children, and though they feed me, they don't love me as hers do.

This is just the time, Meg, when young married people are apt to grow apart, and the very time when they ought to be most together, for the first tenderness soon wears off, unless care is taken to preserve it. And no time is so beautiful and precious to parents as the first years of the little lives given to them to train.

There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty.

hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally

El amor es planta que arraiga en todos los suelos, que se desarrolla sin miedo a las heladas del otoño o a las nieves del invierno, y que florece siempre, perfumando y bendiciendo así por igual a quienes lo otorgan y a quienes lo reciben.

MIRACLE OF LIFE   The miracle of life is given by One greater than ourselves, but once given, each life is ours to nurture and preserve, to foster, not only for today's world but for a better one to come. There is no purpose more noble than for us to sustain and celebrate life in a turbulent world, and that is what we must do now. The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom, 2005

I always thinks that a garden is the best sort of legacy a person can leave. [Caroline, 'Skelmerton']

But did she read to Cara, the books that Cara loved? The Borrowers and The Railway Children and every word of The Secret Garden.) Did she love the children, or simply possess them?