I have the same need to nurture and protect.

I resented our relationship, but I continued to nurture it.

How could God do this to them when all they wanted was to love each other and nurture their own children?

On the fertile low grounds along the margins of rivers or in clearings of forests, agricultural communities naturally take their rise, dwelling in villages and cultivating the wild grains, which by careful nurture and selection have been turned into rich cereals.

Lord Palmerston, on the other hand, had no personal grudge to nurture, but he was convinced that the first duty of England was to support Turkey and to resist Russia.