Quotes about Nurture
My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.
— Proverbs 3:11-12
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Love in this world doesn't come out of thin air. It is not something thought up. Like ourselves, it grows out of the ground. It has a body and a place.
— Wendell Berry
There is no friendship, no love, like that of a mother for her child.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The mother's heart is the child's school-room.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I knew God wanted to do much more...and he would, if we provided good soil in which he could work.
— Jim Cymbala
Breed is stronger than pasture.
— George Eliot