Quotes about Nurture

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

I walk in Nature's way until I shall lie down and rest, breathing my last in this from which I draw my daily breath, and lying down on this from which my father drew his vital seed, my mother her blood, my nurse her milk; from which for so many years I am fed and watered day by day; which bears my footstep and my misusing it for so many purposes.

If you want to feel loving, I coached myself, do something loving. This is basic soul care.

The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn into mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too.

God's Word is the ultimate beauty treatment for every woman.

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our little hurts will be made much of - to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more.