- “As a parent, there will be many times in your life that you hug your child. Knowing that you needed that hug more than they did.”
- “Parental love is the only love that is truly selfless, unconditional and forgiving. – Dr. T.P.Chia
- “What it’s like to be a parent: It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do but in exchange, it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love. – Nicholas Sparks
- “Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world, you had to earn it. – Ann Brashares
- “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. – Gary Smalley
- “The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment. – James E. Faust
- “We never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves. – Henry Ward Beecher
- “When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth. – Mitch Albom
- “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. – Roald Dahl
- “The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. – Jim Morrison
- “My parents are my backbone. Still, are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40. – Kobe Bryant
- “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. – Charles R. Swindoll
- “By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments. – Eileen Kennedy-Moore
- “A father’s goodness is higher than the mountain, a mother’s goodness deeper than the sea. – Japanese Proverb
- “A parent’s love is whole no matter how many times divided. – Robert Brault
- “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.
- “The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. – O. A. Battista
- “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. – Brian Tracy
- “As your kids grow they may forget what you said, but won’t forget how you made them feel – Kevin Heath
- “No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin
- “Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry – Alvin Price
- “Don’t throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations. – Dr. James Dobson
- “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. – Elizabeth Stone
- “We must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination. – Andrew Solomon
- “The Parental predisposition to love prevails in the most harrowing of circumstances. – Andrew Solomon
- “Parents love is whole, no matter how many times it’s divided. – Robert Brault
- “No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us. – Brad Meltzer
- “Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do. – Barbara Walters
- “In some sense, every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well. – Wm. Paul Young
- “Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents – Abraham Lincoln
- “There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. – Henry Ward Beecher
