Nurturing Relationship Quotes

I got the name from my grandma because when I was a baby, she used to call me jittery. I used to move around real fast.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

All my children are blessings. I love them to bits. They're my world.

The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

If I'm working in the city, then as soon as I'm home, I try to lock in on my son for a few hours. Every day. I see how important it is that he's starting to come into my world now. It's just an effort to give him that male mode of being.

It's such an intimate and profound relationship that it cannot be unconditional. I can only compare the intimacy of sex with the intimacy of the mother with a newborn baby. But with a newborn baby, it is unconditional.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

When two people - regardless of gender - long to care for each other, to protect each other, to treasure each other, we should do everything we can to foster that.

How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?

Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

My uncle was a second father to me. I spent most of my childhood with him.

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

The person who received maximum affection from mother, that person also sort of cultivated the potential showing affection to others.

Me for Ma

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.

A mother is the truest friend we have.

Tender as a mothers love... And with my mother, that was certainly true.

When I say I'm going to take care of a woman, I don't just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I'm going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I'm going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

I feel like if you are with someone through the process of pregnancy and delivery, if nothing else, there is such an incredible amount of respect that would lead into some sort of love in one way or another.

I have friends who have children, and they have told me how remarkable it is to have a new life that is a piece of your own flesh anf blood. But I --" "I realized that I didn't love her because she was a piece of me, I loved her because she was a piece of you.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

My days of being an absentee dad are well and truly over.