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Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe. -- Melody Beattie
The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country. -- Stephen Covey
My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured. -- Thomas Clarkson
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing. -- Bill Nighy
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured. -- Edward de Bono
In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind. -- Sandra Cisneros
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. -- Samuel Smiles
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage. -- David Gerrold
Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then. -- Steve Irwin
There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them. -- T. D. Jakes
With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured. -- Dana Plato
Fashion was in a crisis up until the mid-'90s and, when it came out of the crisis, it was a very different place. It was a place that nurtured and cultivated young entrepreneurial designers. -- Tim Gunn
I'd like to be remembered as someone who made a difference in the lives of young people - that I nurtured someone and taught them to pursue their dreams and their careers, to leave a legacy. -- Andre Leon Talley
'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience. -- Ralph Waite
We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change. -- Justin Rosenstein
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. -- Douglas MacArthur
High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. -- James Wolcott
There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things. -- Dave Winfield
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. -- Michelle Obama
The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience. -- Jeff Miller
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They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles. -- Nikki Sixx
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up. -- Ezra Taft Benson
What's nurtured slowly grows well. -- Haruki Murakami
Those who are nurtured best, survive best. -- Louis Cozolino
My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres. -- Danai Gurira
freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity. -- Gary Shteyngart
We're all nurtured by mother nature's cycles and seasons. -- Costa Georgiadis
A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. -- Leo Buscaglia
Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness. -- Allan Lokos
Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war. -- William Appleman Williams
The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want. -- Harry S. Truman
Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story. -- Jean Houston
Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps. -- Zicheng Hong
Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love. -- Mollie Marti
Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids. -- Gillian Flynn
We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured. -- Leo Buscaglia
Malaysia-Singapore bilateral relations can blossom beautifully if cultivated and nurtured like an orchid plant. -- Najib Razak
The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied. -- Richard Koch
All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments. -- E. O. Wilson
We are not the survival of the fittest. We are the survival of the nurtured. -- Louis Cozolino
Democracy should be nurtured and sustained in Nigeria and in our part of the world -- Olusegun Obasanjo
What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on. -- Chinweizu Ibekwe
Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class -- Francine Prose
In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders. -- Jack Kingston
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies. -- Gary Wright
Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way. -- Jane Fonda
All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated. -- Augusten Burroughs
Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition. -- David Gross
Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up. -- Judith Viorst
Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced. -- Andy Hargreaves
Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance. -- Arundhati Roy
Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers. -- Michael Douglas
I find so much inspiration and healing from Mother Earth. Through my connection with Nature my soul is nurtured. -- Jodi Sky Rogers
The quality of news coverage has diminished, because giants of the print media are no longer being nurtured properly. -- F. Lee Bailey
Love is to be nurtured, protected, and respected, and entered into with a clear mind and a sound heart. -- Denene Millner
I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained. -- Carre Otis
I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it. -- Sting
Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things. -- Dean Kamen
As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others. -- Anne Waldman
When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured. -- Joni Mitchell
Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity. -- Nhat Hanh
The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people. -- Bryant H. McGill
I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer. -- Astro Teller
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 am nurtured within the womb of universal consciousness. It supports my developing awareness as I witness, engage, learn, create, exchange. -- Jay Woodman
The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the soil, the water and the sun. -- Mario Fernandez
Spirituality on the other hand, is a chosen path of developing intimate relationships with God. It's chosen, it's nurtured, and it's optional. -- Caroline Myss
Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right. -- Helen Keller
We all enter the world with fairly simple needs: to be protected, to be nurtured, to be loved unconditionally, and to belong. -- Louise Hart
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have. -- Rudolf Nureyev
Love doesn't need to be doubted, tested or proven... it's meant to be shown, shared, and nurtured. Find your strength in love.... -- Sarah
There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl. -- Agnes Repplier
We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives. -- Bob Dole
When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit. -- Brennan Manning
I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them. -- Jean Shinoda Bolen
Love of democracy can be likened to a mother's love for her son.It must be cherished,nurtured and protected for all of time -- J.R. Ortiz
There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection. -- Dejan Stojanovic
One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting. -- Paul Gauguin
Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection. -- Dalai Lama
Maybe there were people out there whose love could survive anything, but mine was fragile. It needed to be nurtured in order to thrive and grow. -- Sylvia Day
They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive. -- Olaf Stapledon
My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent. -- Michael Sheen
My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer. -- Geoffrey Canada
Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same . -- Michel de Montaigne
While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined. -- Renee Fleming
Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere. -- Simon Wiesenthal
Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
REDEF is dedicated to my mother, who nurtured and encouraged my interest in everything and slightly regrets the day she taught me to always ask 'why?' -- Jason Hirschhorn
This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. -- Leo Buscaglia
true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations. -- David Bentley Hart
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature -- Josephine Hart
The spiritual self of each of us is that part of us that will never grow old, or ill, or die, but it must be nurtured and invigorated! -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter. -- Ogwo David Emenike
In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans. -- Herman Melville
Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured. -- Julia Child
In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone". -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and state of present-day mathematics is hardly possible. -- Raymond Louis Wilder
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration. -- Patti LaBelle
Freedom-no word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver. . . or came closer to being God's will on earth. -- Omar N. Bradley
If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men. -- Krista Allen
I can only display what I've been nurtured with, which is this worldview which has become my view. If I displayed anything different from it in my work, I wouldn't deserve this heritage. -- Abbas Kiarostami
What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video. -- Siouxsie Sioux
Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietÃ of mother and son. -- Camille Paglia
Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams. -- Alice Walker
How do you know nonsense isn't a good thing? if human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily previous could have come from it. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them! -- Ann Radcliffe
There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category. -- Julian Fellowes
The idea that [Jeff Sessions] is the man who is going to end the progress on the drug war makes me want to rip my hair out, every carefully nurtured curl on my head. -- Ayelet Waldman

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