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Quotes About Nurture

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
~ John Lennon
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
~ John Lennon
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
~ John Lennon
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
~ John Locke
I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education
~ John Locke
I really believe that our stories make us who we are. I don't think people are born as empty shells. They already have the makings of a personality and they have intelligence. But from the moment they're born and maybe before that they start accumulating stories and it's those stories that have the biggest effect on them.
~ John Marsden
A farm is just an accumulation of stories really. Same with people... "A farmer's footsteps are the best fertiliser," Dad used to say, which just means that the more you walk around your place the better everything seems to grow and flourish.
~ John Marsden
Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn in mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too.
~ John Mayer
Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn into mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too.
~ John Mayer
You may think that grown-ups create children. The reality is that children create grown-ups. They become their own person, and so do you. Children give so much more than they take.
~ John Medina
Kids come into the world before their brains are fully developed. The result? Parenthood.
~ John Medina
A garden is not a matter of life or death. It is far more important than that.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
She needs someone to love her, clothe her, feed her, teach her right from wrong, someone to set limits and provide opportunities, someone to believe in her and be her champion.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Agnes like she was a baby bird. Dabney felt a combination of
~ Elin Hilderbrand
We want to leave a legacy with who we are and what we do. We want to grow a life that matters. We can. When we eat a diet of fruit and serve up that diet to those around us, we can grow a life that matters.
~ Elisa Morgan
Be good to your girls!
~ Elisabeth Squires
we must create our children alive and fragile and pulsing with the hot blood that is so easy, so terribly easy to spill." It
~ Elizabeth Bear
Se was not a greatparent. Se did not have the skill of making luck.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Romantic feelings were so tiresome. And so inappropriate, when dealing with a patient, but human beings are programmed to get attached to those we caretake, or those who take care of us.
~ Elizabeth Bear
For nothing on the waters and the wide wide world is fiercer than a mother.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Genes load the gun, and environment pulls the trigger.
~ Elizabeth Blackburn
Indeed, she had started to wonder if her blessings might be in her daughters and their progeny rather than in her sons. There was greatness in the female side of her line, and if she could nurture it and enhance its luster, then she would.
~ Elizabeth Chadwick
The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.
~ Elizabeth George
Life's very like a husband you know, my dear; it makes you bring forth fruit.
~ Elizabeth Goudge