Quotes About Nurture

I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.

You can improve your punching power, but only to an extent. If you can punch hard, then it's just god-given, that's just nature, not nurture and there's not much you can do to develop punching power.

Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.

I've been lucky because I've had wonderful teachers along the way who have nurtured and pushed me to the next level.

A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.

If you close your eyes and think about where you feel the most safe, you're probably not going to tell me it's in a room full of police. You feel safe where you're around people that love you, when you have food and shelter, when you're being pushed to be your best self and learn.

I am always floating around trying to tend to everyone and be free while at the same time enjoying some space.

I focused on how these people became how they were.

It is very easy to get people focused on children.

I think good publicists are just like good mommies - always looking out, making sure folks are comfortable and making sure that folks are on time and making sure that folks are getting what they need and know what they need to do.

The family is the foundation of everything.

I think my cat is adorable, and I probably give it too much fresh chicken. Maybe if I had a child, I'd be giving the chicken to the child.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

A friendship has to be cultivated. A friendship you have to give time.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Otherwise the world could not continue — the children would not be healthy. And

Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

Where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow.

They never sat up all night with Trouble, Peter Piper used to say. And I told him they were quite right. If you make a fuss over trouble and put it to bed and nurse it and give it beef tea and gruel, you can never get rid of it

Donde cuides una rosa, muchacho, No puede crecer un cardo

Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our chicdren, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.

Never underestimate the importance of the woman who rocks the cradle.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree, he thought. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me—all bearing for someone else to pick.

growth itself can produce unfavorable conditions unless treated with extreme care.