Quotes on Love My Parents

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

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.