Quotes About Nurture

Human touch is as important as water and food and air and laughter and new shoes.

It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

Love is to people what water is to plants.

past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope. Build community. Nurture those less fortunate. Become yourself. Seek God. No less potent steps than these will be deep enough to move you forward.

There are people who manifest the potential for sparkle that we all share, and those who don't. Those who do are usually people who somewhere along the line, either from parents or lovers, were told verbally or nonverbally, "You're wonderful and beautiful." Love is to people what water is to plants.

The mother of any species is loving and tender toward her young but fiercely protective whenever they are threatened. What has happened to the female of our species?

Books are curious things. When they want to live, they find a way to become part of the lives that need them. From: The Familiar vol. 2: Into the Forest

Books are curious things. When they want to live, the find a way to become part of the lives that need them. From: The Familiar vol. 2: Into the Forest

Churches don't need programs so much as they need cultures of discipling, cultures where each member prioritizes the spiritual health of others.

It is easier," said Frederick Douglass, "to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one can tell them not to, and one can tell them not to worry so much.

the principal duty which a parent owed to a child was to make him happy.

the principal duty which a parent owed to a child was to make him happy. Not

A Tropic flower cannot live without sun. A soul cannot live without love.

Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

All of life is maintenance, for heaven's sake. That's the pleasant part. Taking care of things.

humans who have lived through the singular experience of parenting without being irrevocably changed by the process. We all wonder, as our children grow into adults, what we have done, or not done, that has contributed to, or detracted from, the happiness of these special beings we have brought into existence. The

A sick man is but a child, and so I will treat you.

It's not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.

Kristin held the child while the young mother went to get a drink of local ale.

It seemed sometimes as if he was two different people, one a product of his background and class and the other the person he might have been if he had been born outside of their confines.

There is no such thing as maternal instinct: the word does not in any case apply to the human species. The mother's attitude is defined by her total situation and by the way she accepts it.