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Quotes About Nurture

It takes three to make a child.
~ e. e. cummings
A co-founder is like being somebody's parent: You want to make sure your offspring thrive.
~ Caterina Fake
Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't.
~ Bernice Weissbourd
People thrive on genuine connections - not with machines, but with each other. You don't want a robot taking care of your baby; an ailing elder needs to be loved, to be listened to, fed, and sung to. This is one job category that people are - and will continue to be - best at.
~ Oren Etzioni
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
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.
~ John Dryden
My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there's this monster - this tiger or lion - that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn't stop. It doesn't matter if they become men or women.
~ Frances McDormand
Now I know why tigers eat their young.
~ Al Capone
I have a very close, tight group of friends. I lean on them for support and I lean on my kids and just want to be the best mom possible.
~ Christina Anstead
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
~ Sai Baba
Christians are not born but made.
~ Saint Jerome
when you give love... it grows and grows.
~ Salina Yoon
It is hard to care for the earth if one has never cared for a piece of it.
~ Sallie McFague
Today when you nurture, love and meet the needs of your beloveds with beauty, it will make a difference in how they face their whole day.
~ Sally Clarkson
the fundamental mission of motherhood now is the same as it always was: to nurture, protect, and instruct children, to create a home environment that enables them to learn and grow, to help them develop a heart for God and his purposes, and to send them out into the world prepared to live both fully and meaningfully.
~ Sally Clarkson
how to create a home that nourishes, nurtures, and sustains life and beauty. It is all about how to order your living space and what happens there to embody the joy and beauty of God's own Spirit.
~ Sally Clarkson
A WISE WOMAN TAKES CARE OF HER EMOTIONAL HEALTH, her spiritual health, and her intellectual growth.
~ Sally Clarkson
work of seeking to be a mentor to your children, seeking to pass on a spiritual formation that creates a live faith, giving the training required to develop godly character, and creating a love for learning is absolutely one of the most profound works of our whole society and world.
~ Sally Clarkson
Fascination takes many forms, but all tap into instinctive triggers, such as the need to hunt, to control, to feel secure, to nurture and be nurtured. Some fascinations last only a heartbeat, while others last beyond a seventy-fifth wedding anniversary.
~ Sally Hogshead
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
~ Salman Rushdie
Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be "strangers in a strange land," who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.
~ Salvador Minuchin
It's best to be like water, nurturing the ten thousand things without competing, flowing into places people scorn, very like the Tao. Make the earth a dwelling place. Cultivate the heart and mind. Practice benevolence. Stand by your word. Govern with equity. Serve skillfully. Act in a timely way, without contentiousness, free of blame.
~ Sam Hamill
Is and is not produce one another. The difficult is born in the easy, long is defined by short, the high by the low. Instrument and voice achieve one harmony. Before and after have places. That is why the sage can act without effort and teach without words, nurture things without possessing them, and accomplish things without expecting merit: only one who makes no attempt to possess it cannot lose it.
~ Sam Hamill
A child is like an unruly tree—in order to grow up straight, he must be pruned. 'Raise up a child in the way he should go, and he will not depart from it.'" I
~ Sam Torode