Quotes on Parents Love

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

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.

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.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

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.

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.

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.

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

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

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

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

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

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.