Top 115 Nurturing Quotes

I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I’m still a dork.

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing artists. It’s gotten away from making a full album of music that someone would want to listen to all the way through.

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

I’m very nurturing. I come from a large family, and my parents were loving. But the most important thing for me as a mum is to keep my word. When I say no, I mean no.

I had the most incredible time on ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ It never occurred to me when I took it on that I would physically not be able to do it because that’s not in an Olympic competitor’s vocabulary! It was the most wonderful environment, such a nurturing environment.

For the men, they are more of a risk taker, and for the women, they are more nurturing and more details. So the combination of the men and women is very good for business.

Men are very protective, and women are nurturing.

I had parents who were incredibly loving and nurturing and always made me feel beautiful, so I never really questioned that.

For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.

I believe in nurturing the inner world.

Bad influences and distractions were around every corner. But I also learned that my neighborhood could be a nurturing, positive place to grow up.

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don’t know their names, they don’t care about you, you don’t care about them.

The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don’t have enough of that, and as humans we need it.

It’s not that an actor needs to be pampered so much as that one needs to provide a nurturing environment that is encouraging.

There are far too many children in America in need of a loving home who are shuttled between temporary homes and group shelters that fail to provide the stable, nurturing environment all children deserve.

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.

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

I’m doing my best to raise my son and give him a nurturing, loving, and caring environment so he can grow up and be the best version of himself.

It’s great that mixed martial arts allows people to still be in touch with their animal side and duke it out in a cage, but I think it’s important: we’re still nurturing beings, and we should still have compassion for each other.

Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing.

Are we Darwinists – where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach.

I’m a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I’m just interested in things remaining fresh.

If you’re an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn’t otherwise have.

If our children are becoming teenagers who are abusive, have mental health issues, and are committing heinous crime, it only means that we have failed them as a society. We have failed to give them a safe, nurturing environment to ensure that they are well-balanced, useful persons in the society.

I’m committed as governor to valuing and nurturing our relationships with our friends to the south.

The matriarchs of my family loved to bake, and the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. Baking became something I did every day; it became a time where my creative and nurturing side took stage.

Drama school was a lifeline for me, it saved me. I found it very nurturing – I just clung on.

Red Bull have always been very good at nurturing young talent – Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo are products of that – and it is important with Asian talent that people keep investing in it. There’s a massive pool of people, for sure, and the next Sebastian Vettel is out there somewhere.

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men… mild, soft, nurturing relationships.

People are always very surprised by how, offstage with my husband, I’m a completely different person… very soft and nurturing.

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

Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along.

There’s a lot of hope and comfort and nurturing in the ballroom scene.

I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn’t you like to think that’s not all there is? That you haven’t hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

I think it’s something to do with the nurturing side of the psyche; tying up a sunflower or whatever and helping it grow, it is just some kind of core human experience.

For me, living a balanced life means nurturing the academic, physical, and spiritual aspects of my life so I can maintain a sense of well-being and self-esteem.

There’s something about fall that very much translates into those nurturing, nostalgic food flavors. It’s the season where you can really make the marriage of fresh produce with spices and aromatics.

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

Pamela Eells has been the most amazing leader. She’s such a nurturing person, and that is what makes a woman such a great leader: she’s nurturing but also gets stuff done.

Having a family is really important. And there would be something missing in my life as a woman if I didn’t at least attempt to fulfil that side of me. Just for a certain period of your life, to have your sole purpose to be nurturing, feeding and protecting someone else: it’s animalistic, isn’t it? It’s beautiful.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

I know that there’s a cultural expectation that women be nurturing, delicate flowers. And I am. So delicate. But that doesn’t mean I can’t write a good, gory murder scene.

Mum is withdrawn and very shy. I don’t see her as a friend, like I do my dad. He’s active and bouncy. She’s maternal, nurturing, exceptionally intelligent and empathetic. I’m a better person for having had her as a mother.

There was a time when watching a cartoon was a nurturing experience. You would watch a Warner Bros. cartoon, and at the end of it you could probably win ‘Jeopardy.’

It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.

We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.

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.

You put as much effort as you can when they’re young into trying to teach them to be good people or make them the best they can be, and they’re older now, my kids. I’m at that stage where I let them go, and you just hope that all that nurturing you did earlier on sticks, and you launched good people out there.

I worked on becoming a better person and nurturing what I’ve been blessed with, improving my skills and taking care of my health and beauty.

Doris Roberts had an energy and a spirit that amazed me. She never stopped. Whether working professionally or with her many charities or just nurturing and mentoring a green young comic trying to make it as an actor, she did everything with such a grand love for life and people, and I will miss her dearly.

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it’s about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those of men. This knowledge has come to us with the Restoration of the gospel in the fullness of times, with an acknowledgment that women are endowed with the great responsibilities of motherhood and nurturing.

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.

My father was the nurturing one, the one who always made sure my sister and I ate properly and that our hair was brushed… He really took care of the logistics of our upbringing.

I’m actually very moral and nurturing, but I’m also adventurous. I am challenging.

I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

My family was very, very poor. We grew up in an environment that was so nurturing and so caring. Everything around us was beautiful.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

I thought music could take you to a place where you didn’t even feel ownership of it, you just felt lucky you were there. It’s like church without God, or something. It’s about feeling, hope and catharsis and things that are nurturing.

We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women – black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.

I love being nurturing and caring because I love to see other people happy.

Every student has something to offer, and every student deserves a nurturing learning environment.

My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer – it’s really strong. We’re deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I’m very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow.

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

Really in technology, it’s about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.

I have two parents who are brilliant storytellers. The art of developing a story and nurturing a story was present in my household from the day I was born.

Nurturing an inclusive culture begins in the family. Home is the first place to foster openness and a culture of inclusion.

Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents’ goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.

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

I’m in love with cities. I find them amazing, the quiet co-ordination of thousands of people, going about what we’re trying to do, and that organism of the city nurturing human aspiration, and the actual city fabric itself being a special thing rather than just infrastructure.

I think – I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that’s part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it’s self loathing. It’s self denial. And you keep that separate.

Women should know that they don’t have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them – that there is always time to start a new dream.

People of a certain age still remember me as Edna Garrett. They often want to give me a hug because the character was so warm and nurturing. I don’t mind at all. I think it’s very nice.

I think perhaps we all cook to feed some kind of hunger in ourselves. I am nourished by being surrounded by family and friends, by creating something delicious for them, by nurturing them.

I don’t think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

A journal of the ‘subjective’ kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

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

What it comes down to is, Kiss has always been a beast that has this tendency to run wild, and it needs attention and nurturing. If people are always running off and doing other projects, which has been the case, somebody has to be there for stability.

As adults, we realize that the real future lies in the hands of our children and grandchildren. Our first priority should be the nurturing and education of America’s youth.

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

Black women’s feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community’s children.

Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I’ve been wanting to do.

Our teachers made such a difference – all my teachers and professors were very supportive and nurturing.

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don’t really push for that extra whatever.

The great white advantage has been living inside history, adapting to its constant demands, nurturing the values and the habits of life that allow one to keep pace. This is the cultural capital that whites too often take for granted and rarely think of insisting on in the former victims of exclusion.

I certainly believe that being in contact with one’s spirit and nurturing one’s spirit is as important as nurturing one’s body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.

For me, family feels like a web of love and care, and instinctively, too, I do just like nurturing things.

I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn’t have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, ‘Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I.’

If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she’s an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.

I certainly believe that being in contact with one’s spirit and nurturing one’s spirit is as important as nurturing one’s body and mind.

For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.

Sometimes coaching is being hard on them, but there’s a balance. I’m fine with the word nurturing. It’s teaching in a positive way. You have to find what works for each group.

I have been lucky enough to inherit the patient, loving and nurturing side from my mother, and the organizational and productive side from my dad.

My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.

Bindi’s really, you know, got her own goals and aspirations, and if I can nurture what Bindi loves, then I think I’m being a good parent. Because Bindi’s got a natural love for wildlife, I think that will be part of what we’re nurturing.

My father offered his life so our democracy could live. My mother devoted her life to nurturing that democracy. I will dedicate my life to making our democracy reach its fullest potential: that of ensuring equality for all. My family has sacrificed much, and I am willing to do this again if necessary.

Startups can be the most conservative organizations in the world. We spend so much energy nurturing our delicate egos against naysayers and self-doubt that we can hardly admit mistakes. This is especially true of first-time CEOs.

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

I’m not saying the persona on ‘Strictly’ isn’t me – it’s just that the nurturing side, which is also a part of who I am, isn’t what I’m there for. I’m there to judge and to give an honest opinion, even if it’s not the opinion someone wants to hear.

Science fiction writers create all sorts of futures – that comes with the job. But it’s not the type that matters – hopeful or dark – it’s the variety we see as readers. It’s nurturing the imaginations of those who will go on to create the world around us.

Im very nurturing.

The first Victoria’s Secret model I ever met was Adriana Lima, and she was so nice to me. She was very generous and very nurturing. She made sure people talked to me!

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.

I know people seek me out to be their mentor, and I’ve chosen a few people I’m really invested in and nurturing their career and their aesthetic and just their person.

Children have to be provided a nurturing environment to grow. Sadly, in India we don’t have a robust mental health programme for children. There is also a lack of accountability in the public system.

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

There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people’s potential or even enthusiasm.

I’m very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.

I have found that nurturing our creative side feeds all aspects of one’s life and those around us in a positive way.