nurturing quotes

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

The cooking profession, while it’s a noble craft and a noble calling, ‚cause you’re doing something useful – you’re feeding people, you’re nurturing them, you’re providing sustenance – it was never pure.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

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.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.