Quotes about Nurture
To shape the soul of a young girl, all the nuns in the world are not equal to one mother.
— Victor Hugo
He had but one word for both these kinds of toil; he called them gardening. The mind is a garden, said he.
— Victor Hugo
The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young
— Victor Hugo
Characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.
— Milan Kundera
You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.
— Wayne Dyer
When you plant a tree, if it doesn't grow well, you don't blame the tree.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take of your own garden and master the art of gardening.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
This segregation has erected denominational walls and impoverished many Christians. Unless you happen to be born into just the right tradition, you're brought up to feed on somebody else's diet.
— Gary Thomas
The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.
— Harry S. Truman
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
— Margaret Mead
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
— Seneca
According to the Talmud, every blade of grass has its own angel bending over it, whispering, "Grow, grow.
— Barbara Brown Taylor