Quotes About Nurture

She had "green fingers" and knew them to be one of the happiest gifts that the gods can give.

A garden always has a point.

What if our myths and teaching tales had purposely led humanity to believe that it was the ultimate sign of strength to nurture and love? What if the urge to care for children and nature and each other had been chosen as the most important tasks of any society? What if care as opposed to conquest had been the marker of virility? What if resources were granted to the people most skilled at peace making, healing, creating and opposed to those with brute strength and a pension for violence?

The finger-biter's feelings for her ex-husband were a bonsai tree—they may have started in something real, but she'd tended them so closely and for so long they were now purely decorative.

I do not think God makes bad things happen just so that people can grow spiritually. Bad parents do that. Bad parents make things hard and painful for their children and then say it was to help them grow. Growing and living are hard enough already; children do not need things to be harder.

Instead of raising children who turn out okay despite their childhood, let's raise children who turn out extraordinary because of their childhood.

I only have one tip on how to get someone else to FALL IN LOVE with you. Adore, love, nurture and appreciate yourself so much, that it doesn't matter if they do or not.

Discipline is only a short term deterrent. It has never been responsible for long term change – only encouragement, upliftment and love can possibly do that!

Nurture, not nature, explained human behavior and institutions.

por unos momentos, tratar al niño como si fuera el centro de nuestro universo. Todo eso lo hace plenamente feliz

Split a young ash sapling a few feet down its trunk. At sunrise, pass the child through the cleft, three to nine times, against the sun. Then bind the tree and plaster the fissure with mud or clay. If the tree fares well, so will the child.

So this is parenthood, he thought. You behave better than you might for the sake of your kid.

I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.

For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

Todos querem o perfume das flores, mas poucos sujam as suas mãos para cultivá-las

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

Men might rule the world, but women created life, made it grow within them. Without the womb there was no kingdom to govern, and a king was as useless as the next man.

Each insight should be nurtured and reinforced by bringing it up again and again and anchoring it in the mind. Then we will have access to it and be able to use it at all times.

The one who gives birth to you, the one who gets your Upanayan (Sacred Thread) ceremony performed, the one who gives you education, the one who gives you food and the one who protects you from all sort of dangers – these five persons deserve the status of your father

Of course, United have always bought brilliant players. But you see Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard, who have come through the ranks, and before them Scholesy, Giggsy and Becks, who were given a chance to develop as players.

Gardening is not a rational act.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

With the breast-feeding, I really love the bonding. Real life is more important to me.

Don't kill the golden goose.