Quotes about Nurture

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

No relationship in this world ever remains warm and close unless a real effort is made on both sides to keep it so.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Whenever a child is given to parents, a crown is made for it in Heaven; and woe to those parents if that child is not reared with a sense of responsibility to acquire that crown!

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

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.