Quotes about Nurture
A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.
- Billy Graham
Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.
- John Eldredge
Teach the Scriptures to your children daily, discipline your children consistently, and love your children unconditionally. If you do these things, you will have acted biblically.
- Paul Washer
When leaders become focused on the fruit instead of the root and worry about the outcome instead of the process of developing team members, they may survive in the short run, but they will not thrive in the long run.
- Jon Gordon
if you focus on the fruit and ignore the root, the tree will die, but if you continue to care for the root and focus on your culture, process, people, and purpose, then you'll always have a great supply of fruit.
- Jon Gordon
Jon had often told me that if you focus on the fruit and ignore the root, the tree will die, but if you continue to care for the root and focus on your culture, process, people, and purpose, then you'll always have a great supply of fruit.
- Jon Gordon
A seed had been pressed into the soil of his soul, and had been watered, and would soon burst and sprout green and grow beyond all possibility of concealing.
- Eric Metaxas
If we think of the fatherhood of God, we get a picture of someone who is strong and loving and who sacrifices himself for those he loves. That's a picture of real fatherhood and real manhood.
- Eric Metaxas
But just remember: a woman's like a rose; if you treat her right, she'll bloom, if you don't, she'll wilt.
- Eric Wilson
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
- Ben Stein
I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.
- Alice Walker