Quotes About Nurture

Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.

Takin' care of that boy is the only thing I'm here for in this sea beaten world . . .

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

The goal of priestly ministry is to do good to the souls of men.

Encourage the genius in everyone you meet.

If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

a baby forest smothered in its bed.....

Children survived, if they had half a chance. Children who could form attachments survived best.

Just because you've only got houseplants doesn't mean you don't have the gardening spirit — I look upon myself as an indoor gardener.

That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools.

It doesn't matter whether I was born in a mess of blood and goo, or whether I was shaped lovingly and carefully in a workroom with chisel and hammer.

A woman predisposed to be a mother can learn to love any baby, while a mother not so disposed does not even learn to love her own.

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

I'm not one that just throws music out there to keep it coming, and all that. I believe in the craft, and the time it takes to really nurture something and put a lot of effort into the details.

Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.

Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn't there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

Gardening is all about optimism. I put a seed in the ground. I consistently tend it, confident I will see the results, in time, of the nurture I have provided.

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.

The rose tree needs the rain to survive, as well as the sun.