Nurture Quotes

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. (John Lennon)
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. View quote
Alfred Austin
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things. View quote
Gerald Ford
Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies. View quote
Leymah Gbowee
Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture them. View quote
Julian Assange
The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave. View quote
Edward Bellamy
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity. View quote
Peter Bart
There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our hurts will be made much of--to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more. View quote
George Eliot
With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world! (Jane Addams)
We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger. View quote
Stephen Covey
I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it. View quote
Steven Erikson
The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness. View quote
Derren Brown
To be a successful state, we have to nurture successful children. View quote
Lawton Chiles
You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose. View quote
Melody Beattie
Political and legal institutions play a central role in setting the environment that can nurture prosperity and economic growth. View quote
Angus Deaton
Normally we empower our demons by believing they are real and strong in themselves and have the power to destroy us. As we fight against them, they get stronger. But when we acknowledge them by discovering what they really need, and nurture them, our demons release their hold, and we find that they actually do not have power over us. By nurturing the shadow elements of our being with infinite generosity, we can access the state of luminous awareness and undermine ego. By feeding the demons, we resolve conflict and duality, finding our way to unity. View quote
Tsultrim Allione
Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationshps; we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other. View quote
Bruce D. Perry
[I]t makes little difference where we draw the line between the pruning and shaping [of behavior] by natural selection which is genetically transmitted to offspring (the wiring you are born with), and the pruning and shaping that later takes place in the individual (the rewiring you end up with, as a result of experience or training). Nature and nurture blend seamlessly together. (Daniel Dennett)
I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted. View quote
David Duchovny
I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope. View quote
Jerome Groopman
You could sit on top of a mountain praying for hours a day and still not make it if you had no love in your heart. You could spend your life feeding the poor and still not make it because your karma required you to bear and nurture children. The path home to God is different for every person. Only communion with your Higher Self will reveal your path to you. View quote
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
I believe you have to nurture your conscience. View quote
Loretta Young