Nurturing Quotes · Page 4

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

— Homer

Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.

— Tori Amos

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool…

— Jeff Bridges

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

— Tom Peters

I am proud to be a woman. I am sensual, nurturing and compassionate woman. I am a woman of my word and…

— Miranda Kerr

“The reality is that for many of us family was as much the incubator of despair as the safe nurturing”

— Dorothy Allison

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than…

— Demetri Martin

Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.

— Rachael Bermingham

The original 'Artist's Way' focused on the nurturing of the self. The 'Artist's Way for Parents' focuses both on nurturing the self…

— Julia Cameron

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up…

— Yo-Yo Ma

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is…

— Joe Torre

The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes,…

— Robert Gottlieb

Daughters of God know that it is the nurturing nature of women that can bring everlasting blessings, and they live to cultivate…

— Margaret D. Nadauld

Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that…

— John Hurt

Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is…

— M. Scott Peck

Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your…

— Derrick Bell

One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to…

— Katrina Kenison

I was pretty lucky, I went to a really great school. I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and…

— Zoe Kravitz

As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the…

— Anonymous

Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own…

— Barbara Deming

[...] we must start by inspiring our children with a sense of purpose...by nurturing their imagination so that they may dream big…

— Barack Obama

Women are only half responsible for children. Men raise children as much as women do. Until men are as nurturing as women…

— Gloria Steinem

“This determination that nurturing should become exclusively a concern of women served to signify to both sexes that neither nurture nor womanhood…

— Wendell Berry

Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those of men. This knowledge…

— James E. Faust

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

— Jeffrey Wright

If Iraq's weapons are weapons of mass destruction, surely ours are weapons of growth and nurturing.

— Greg Proops

“Food is about nurturing: not only physical but also emotional nurturing.”

— Ina Garten

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and…

— Jeff Myers

Our souls cannot be forced to grow, but like flowers, our spiritual selves can be nurtured until they blossom and flourish.

— James Van Praagh

I never realized that the blue sky I saw was not the soft, nurturing sky of spring, but the cold, chilling, lonely…

— Anonymous

“Mother Nature offers her nurturing essence to us all freely with no expectation of reciprocation.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“In civilized society, we humans are responsible for nurturing and sustaining the force of inter-relational harmony in our lives.”

— Gudjon Bergmann

I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior.

— Susan Faludi

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

— Ralph Fiennes

Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear…

— Sheri L. Dew

I'm doing something now where I'm going to have to learn so much and that takes time nurturing, those kinds of relationships.

— Cathy Freeman

I'm quite a nurturing person, and I'm more a mom than a crazy, partying rock star.

— Grace Potter

Our planet's greener future depends on nurturing our natural and abundant renewable resources.

— Tulsi Tanti

In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment.

— Ronnie Musgrove

“The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather…

— Shannon L. Alder