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Quotes About Nurture

Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
~ Laozi
Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
~ Laozi
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.
~ Laozi
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
~ John B. S. Haldane
Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.
~ Penelope Keith
If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.
~ Jami Gertz
Whilst Cornelius was weeding, manuring, watering his beds, whilst, kneeling on the turf border, he analysed every vein of the flowering tulips
~ Alexandre Dumas
All the same, there were some things they needed to learn. Do not drink milk after a thunderstorm, for it will certainly be sour. Always leave out seed for the birds when the first snow falls. Wash your hair with rosemary. Drink lavender tea when you cannot sleep. Know that the only remedy for love is to love more.
~ Alice Hoffman
Now Jet could hear his voice when the wind carried as he recited a quote from Cotton Mather. Families are the Nurseries of all Societies: and the First combinations of mankind.
~ Alice Hoffman
You rescue something and you're responsible for it. But maybe that's what love is.
~ Alice Hoffman
Families are the Nurseries of all Societies: and the First combinations of mankind.
~ Alice Hoffman
In his writings, Dr. Burke-Owens proposed a theory of personality that placed nature over nurture, stating there was no way to change a child's core personality. Not only was the brain hardwired, he proposed, but the soul was as well. There was no way to escape one's personal genetics, despite a healthy environment, and this did not bode well for Frances and Bridget and Vincent.
~ Alice Hoffman
Mrs. Farrell told me that no man was a monster, not even Heathcliff, and that most people's misdeeds were rooted in the treatment they'd received in the world.
~ Alice Hoffman
Nobody is born evil.
~ Alice Miller
The way we were treated as small children is the way we treat ourselves the rest of our life. And we often impose the most agonising suffering upon ourselves.
~ Alice Miller
You can drive the devil out of your garden but you will find him again in the garden of your son.
~ Alice Miller
The cruelty of individuals is not something imposed on them by some mysterious agency but by their parents and other people involved in their upbringing. It takes shape in the brain of a child exposed to cruelty.
~ Alice Miller
People who were loved in childhood will love their parents in return. There is no need of a commandment to tell them to do so. Obeying a commandment can never be the basis for love.
~ Alice Miller
Something so divine that no one up in heaven could have made it up; the care a child took with an adult.
~ Alice Sebold
And to me, wildness means following the growth of love. Like a plant reaching through stone toward the sun-
~ Alice Walker
be aware that the other children of the world are your responsibility as well. You must learn to see them, to feel them, as yours. Until you do, there is no way you can make your own child feel safe.
~ Alice Walker
Each woman is capable of truly bringing another into the world. This we must all do for each other.
~ Alice Walker
Loving children doesn't give them a destination. It gives them sustenance for the journey.
~ Alison Gopnik
The mind, the heart, the womb. Those three are all threaded in a sacred dance. A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When a mother's diet in insufficient, nutrients are pulled from her own teeth and bone. Women are built to be selfless.
~ Alyson Richman