Quotes About Nurture

I'm sure love would cure him. He needs someone to love him and look after him.' 'We all need that

She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.

Parents are always precious. But when you only have one, they become crucial.

Parents are always precious. But when you have only one, they become crucial. The Rest of the Story

My words were either going to be fertilizer to my growing dream, or they would poison it.

To be a father means above all to be at the service of life and growth

How happy I am that my heart can feel the simple, harmless bliss of the person who brings to his table a cabbage he has grown himself, not just the cabbage alone but all the good days, the beautiful morning he planted it, the lovely evenings he watered it, and as he had his joy in its advancing growth, he enjoys it all again in the one moment.

Was Du in Dir nährst, das wächst.

I treat my poor heart like a sick child, and gratify its every fancy. Do not mention this again: there are people who would censure me for it.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more.

We become what we become not only through our DNA or only through our environment, but through their interaction.

When we come into the world, we have the innate tendencies, motivations, and goals that make up nature's effect, anticipating to some extent the general conditions of our life, but then nurture's effect takes over to adapt us to the actual conditions on the ground.

Simply having children does not make mothers.

Although all the characteristics of living things are dependent on both genetic and environmental factors, the differences between two individuals in their attributes may be due to either one or the other component (or both). That is, a difference in either genes or environment can generate a developmental difference arising from the interplay that always takes place between two factors within developing organisms.

Friendship with children increases their love for God.

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.

The Church is our mother, inasmuch as God has committed to her the kind office of bringing us up in the faith until we attain full age.

Love will thrive in any environment.

By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

The power of intention is a critical factor in all areas of life. Simply by intending to create synchronicity in your life, you can nurture that result.

If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.