Nurturing Quotes - Page 10

• 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.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Cooking, Noble

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• My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.

  Jeff Bridges

  Mother, Father, Live Your Life

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• Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.

  Joyce Brothers

  Careers, Secret, Needs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Waiting, Males, Would Be

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• I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Teacher, Children, Believe

  "Cellist Yo Yo Ma: His career and music". www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.

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• I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

  Sidney Poitier

  Family, Wonderful, Know How

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• A stable and nurturing childhood is essential for the healthy psycho-emotional and spiritual development of a human being. While we may understand what is supposed to happen to us physically, we must begin to better understand what happens to children mentally, emotionally and spiritually as a result of the families into which they are born.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Spiritual, Children, Emotional

  "How to Get Through What You’re Going Through: Who’s Your Daddy?" by Iyanla Vanzant, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2010.

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• Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children.

  David A. Bednar

  Children, Teaching, Unique

  "Marriage Is Essential to His Eternal Plan". www.lds.org. June 2006.

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• When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Zest, Careers, Creative

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• Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent. I don't know what it needs or how to provide for it. Another dream years ago of a human child with eyes on stalks. It is very small, but can walk and talk "Don't you want me?" Again, I don't know how to care for the child. But I am dedicated to protecting and nurturing him at any cost! It is the function of the Guardian to protect hybrids and mutants in the vulnerable stage of infancy.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Children, Cat

  "The Cat Inside". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1986.

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• As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.

  Sidney Poitier

  Home, Character, Journey

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• Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Love Is, Needs, Calling

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “Bertie Wooster Sees It Through”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale.

  Peter Buffett

  Safe, Scales, Force

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Mothers have a sacred role. They are partners with God, as well as with their own husbands, first in giving birth to the Lord's spirit children and then rearing those children so they will serve the Lord and keep his commandments. ...Motherhood is a holy calling, a sacred dedication for carrying out the Lord's work, a consecration and devotion to the rearing and fostering, the nurturing of body, mind, and spirit of those who kept their first estate and who came to this earth for their second estate to learn and be tested.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Mother, Husband, Children

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• Western parents try to respect their children’s individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions, supporting their choices, and providing positive reinforcement and a nurturing environment. By contrast, the Chinese believe that the best way to protect their children is by preparing them for the future, letting them see what they’re capable of, and arming them with skills, work habits, and inner confidence that no one can ever take away.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Believe, Passion

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• I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Relationship, Spiritual

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Compassion, Years, Practice

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• Whatever system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important that it carries the people with it. We need to convey the message that safeguarding our common property, humankind, will require developing in each of us a new loyalty: a loyalty to mankind. It calls for the nurturing of a feeling of belonging to the human race. We have to become world citizens.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Loyalty, Race, People

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.135, I.B.Tauris

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• Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Sex, Teenager

  Interview with Larry Dubois, iplayboy.com. January 1, 1974.

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• I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think I'm very supportive.

  David Schwimmer

  Nice, Thinking, Challenges

  "Fox411 QA: David Schwimmer defends neurotic 'Madagascar' character, talks 'challenging' directing style". Fox News Interview, www.foxnews.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Women are only half responsible for children. Men raise children as much as women do. Until men are as nurturing as women are, and until women are as active outside the home as men are, we won't have democratic families, and therefore we won't have democracy, and we will continue this hierarchical notion of life.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Home, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Attaching the word marriage to the association of same-sex individuals mistakenly presumes that marriage is principally a matter of adult benefits and adult rights. In fact, marriage is principally about the nurturing and development of children. And the successful development of children is critical to the preservation and success of our nation.

  Mitt Romney

  Sex, Children, Successful

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• What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love jazz, will say this instead: Alcoholics Anonymous.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  America, Culture, Jazz

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• 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

  Kind, Take Time

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• Commitment to an idea that has the power to transform you personally in any way is a vision worth nurturing. The bottom line is,you need to remain committed to a vision long enough to see it vome to fruition.

  Caroline Myss

  Commitment, Ideas, Long

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