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My love for the child asleep in the crib, the child's need for me, for my vigilance, had made my life valuable in a way that even the most abundantly offered love, my parents', my brother's, even Tom's, had failed to do. Love was required of me now--to be given, not merely to be sought and returned.
Sep 24, 2025
I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or would that just be too weird?
Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad.
I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.
I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.
exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath.
To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.
You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
I love my parents very much, but people either continue or break the patterns of what their life should be and I just want to completely break whatever patterns would lead me to the same life choices that they made.
It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
A mother's love is something that no one can explain — It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain. It is endless and unselfish and enduring, come what may, For nothing can destroy it or take that love away. It is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, And it never fails or falters even though the heart is breaking.
If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
I love my parents and they're wonderful people, but they were strict, and I still look for ways to get even. When I got my own apartment for the very first time and they came to stay with me for the weekend, I made them stay in separate bedrooms.
I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided.
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."
Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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