Upbringing Quotes

When the gardeners are good, the flower will bloom.

This Captain had been brought up in Istanbul. His mind was made of minarets and domes. He capped himself with spacious ease. He was his own call to prayer.

Jeanette Winterson

A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate the child within.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.

Shannon L. Alder

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

Shannon L. Alder

The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.

Shannon L. Alder