Quotes About Nurture

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

The best six doctors anywhere And no one can deny it Are sunshine, water, rest, and air Exercise and diet. These six will gladly you attend If only you are willing Your mind they'll ease Your will they'll mend And charge you not a shilling." -- Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

Before an apple tree is planted, no one will know how many apples will one day sprout from it. It's all about potential, and potential is hidden from all of us until we embrace it, find our purpose, plant ourselves so we can grow.

If we want to give our children what they need to thrive, we must honor their basic nature- boyish or girlish, introverted or extroverted, wild or mellow.

The seeds of doubt grow like weeds when given enough sun. Enough water. Enough nurturing.

There isn't a lot a mother won't do for her child, Kyra. It's sort of hardwired into our DNA.

There is more wisdom inside a seed than in my head.

God has a paradise because he takes care of the garden.

The chicken that is raised by the eagle, strives to fly higher and higher, but the eagle that is raised by the chicken, spends its whole life not knowing what it is to fly."

Nurturing a child's sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child's life.

A church begins to die when it says, 'They were just children.

If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed!

while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest--the children.

We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.

Giardinaggio, prole (i bambini di Marianne e i nostri figli adolescenti), fricassee di funghi, musica, non si finirebbe mai di elencare le piccole gioie che alimentano l'istinto di vivere.

babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies.

A lot of people who had terrible childhoods have kids to prove that they can do a better job, or to fix some cosmic rift by being the parents they needed to their own children.

È qui la differenza con gli altri mammiferi: mentre nei placentati è il cucciolo che deve suggere il latte, il neonato marsupiale di questa pompa muscolare non ha affatto bisogno. E, guarda caso, è proprio per evoluzione di quei muscoli che noi placentati sviluppiamo una mimica facciale. Quella che, come insegnava Darwin, consente l'espressione delle emozioni.

God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests

He nurtured silence so long That emptiness took hold of him. The man became a dry branch That cracked in the cold.