Quotes about Nurturing

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

Males raised and nurtured on mama's 'love' resent the need that they have for women.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience to the truth.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

Love can make the difference-love generously given in childhood and reaching through the awkward years of youth . . . and encouragement that is quick to compliment and slow to criticize.

I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!

We all play our roles. One person plants the seed, another waters it, but it grows only when the season is right.

Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.

We all are children and parents, students and teachers, healers and in need of care.

Our most important and powerful assignments are in the family. They are important because the family has the opportunity at the start of a child's life to put feet firmly on the path home. Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

A father gives his child nothing better than a good education