Quotes About Nurture

Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to bring into being, to remove, as if by magic, the terrible violations of childhood, to nurture, to cherish, to bless, to forgive - to create from the whole cloth of your soul, true love.

Love and honor thy Mother, for she is the fruit that gives thou life.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. J. G. HOLLAND

Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

If the father call us to act, mothers call us to be.

Which wolf wins?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

Paternity is a long way from fatherhood.

Nothing is more important than your family. Nothing comes before your responsibility to watch out for them and provide a home safe from any assault upon them, body or soul.

God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.

The worst thing that can be done to children is to drain their energy while correcting them.

The past is the past. It's now up to us to sustain our own culture. We only lose what we fail to nurture.

The richest harvest comes from best-tilled soil.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

An uncommon intuitive capacity and interpersonal intelligence allowed him as a child to read the intentions and desires of his parents, to react appropriately to shifting household moods—gifts that he would nurture and develop in the years ahead.

Do you think I bring any child into the world to live for himself alone?

To keep something, you must take care of it. More, you must understand just what sort of care it requires. You must know the rules and abide by them.

He was too damned innocent. Homer wished he could keep Tad at this point, bonsai him to never grow up, to never have to experience bad things—

The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

Go away where you're loved and taken care of and looked after.

Many children, most children, I should say, suffer from over-attention on the part of their parents. There is too much love, too much watching over the child.

I must have a talk with you, David, and learn all the new ideas. As far as I can see, one must hate everybody but at the same time give them free medical attention and a lot of extra education, poor things! All those helpless little children herded into schoolhouses every day—and cod liver oil forced down babies' throats whether they like it or not—such nasty-smelling stuff.

If we are to heal the planet, we must begin by healing birthing.

Readers are made not born.