Love Your Children Quotes

You love your child and you want to protect your child more than anything on this planet, and yet by the time they're 17, 18, they're going to step into this world, and that world will not feel the same compunction, necessarily, toward your daughter.

It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children; that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.

But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.

Never give up on your child. But also, you have to love your child.

To find someone who loves your children like you do is really rare.

Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.

I think you got to put your intimate relationship first. If you can keep your woman first and still love your children, you are going to create the healthiest environment.

People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.

My parents were lovely. They've always been supportive. When you love your child, you don't know what to do with someone who wants to do what no one else does successfully. If I had someone younger I loved, I'd be worried for them too if I didn't have guidance to give them.

If you're not sure you could love your children, please don't have them, because they might grow up and kill us.

I walked away from this movie thinking how important it is to have a genuine selfless love for your children. You can really mess kids up if you don't have the right kind of love for them.

Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

But whatever the era, whatever the times, one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first. You must read to your children and you must hug your children and you must love your children. Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens in the White House but on what happens inside your house

Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.

Oh, dear friend, if you love your children, I charge you, do not let the early impression of a habit of prayer slip by. If you train your children to do anything, train them, at least, to have a habit of prayer.

Teach the Scriptures to your children daily, discipline your children consistently, and love your children unconditionally. If you do these things, you will have acted biblically.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

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.

Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

Be yourself -- it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.

It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.

One should think in terms of whether one is loving or not. The question of the object of love does not arise. With your wife, you love your wife; with your children, you love your children; with your servants, you love your servants; with your friends, you love your friends; with the trees, you love the trees; with the ocean, you love the ocean. You are love. Love is not dependent on the object, but is a radiation of your subjectivity - a radiation of your soul. And the vaster the radiation, the greater is your soul.

Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.

In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.

If you love our country and love your children as much as I know that you do, stand and speak and vote your conscience. Vote for candidates up and down the ticket.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

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.

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

The more you love your children, the more care you should take to neglect them occasionally. The web of affection can be drawn too tight.

It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has to not only love his characters - which you do, without even thinking about it, just as you love your children. But also to love the reader, and that's what I mean by the pleasure principle.

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.

You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.

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.