Quotes about Nurture

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

I've just come across this in the Imitation of Christ: Custodi diligenter cellam tuam, et custodiet te ('Take good care of your cell, and it will take care of you'). — May God keep us in faith.

Don't forget, for every drop of rain a flower grows!

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. —MARGARET MEAD

How many parents have lost the hearts of their children because they forgot why they had them? It was never to control them but to provide an environment in which they would flourish. How many couples have lost their marriages because they forgot why they were together? They fight against each other rather than for their love. Do we grasp and wrestle with others for their roles because we lose sight of our own?

The first thing the child of God has to do morning by morning is to obtain food for his inner man.

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.