Quotes About Nurture

I consider all my songs as my children and I don't think any father gets tired of his children, otherwise he's not a good father.

Greta Gerwig always seemed like a name that was mine. My mother did a good job.

I think the key to being a good parent is to individualize your love for each child.

Whenever a child is given to parents, a crown is made for it in Heaven; and woe to those parents if that child is not reared with a sense of responsibility to acquire that crown!

it may be time to stop worrying about what we are making extinct and start nurturing what will outlast us.

Mothers are the only gods in whom all the world believes Joseph Campbell claimed. And this makes psychological sense: all children come forth through women, but boys must learn to separate from the mother by making her other, while girls identify with her, as they will become mothers themselves.

I've raised three kids: my wife and I have three kids. I've observed through direct contact the adults they are now is partially the product of where they came from and what we did. With them growing up, but partially how they were wired at birth.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent will give it fruits and vegetables instead. That is not what the child wants, but it is what the child needs.

Every mother wishes the best for her children.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve.

The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.

When I say I'm going to take care of a woman, I don't just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I'm going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I'm going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply.

Inequality starts in the womb.

Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?

The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people.

I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

They say you'll be blooming when you're in love; I agree, but what is important to bloom is taking care of yourself, too.