Top 71 Child To Parent Love Quotes
#1. For love to be replaced by resentful contempt between husband and wife, or for that matter between parent and child, or colleague and colleague, is a negation of holiness, whatever stuff one may display in books or relay from pulpits and platforms.
J.I. Packer
#2. Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.
Michael Josephson
#3. As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn't right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting!
Jim George
#4. I think part of being a parent, to love one's child, is to accept them as they come - not to see them as instruments of our ambition or as creatures to be molded, as if they were themselves commodities.
Michael Sandel
#5. The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.
George W. Bush
#6. Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.
Jojo Moyes
#7. Every parent craves for a child, and once their wishes come true, they feel that it's not possible for them to love anyone more that the first born. But the fact is, after you have the second issue, the feeling is, how can I not love the kid?
Kajol
#8. I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.
Ben Marcus
#9. Harmonizing heart and brain through love is what can establish a complete intelligence, a complete self, where a child can look at life and realize there are no dead ends, there are always possibilities. The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.
Doc Childre
#10. The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through.
Hilary Duff
#11. The child expects to look up to the parent, to be instructed by the parent, indeed to be commanded by the parent. If the parent instead serves the child, then that relationship falls out of its natural balance. You may not earn your child's love at all - and the
Leonard Sax
#12. For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
Charles Dickens
#13. The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person.
Asa Don Brown
#14. The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.
Khalil Gibran
#15. And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.
Dave Pelzer
#16. Thank you for the time we shared, for the love you gave, for the wisdom you spread. I will always treasure the lessons you taught me. I will carry them with me all the days of my life. I am so proud to be your child.
-From A Prayer When a Parent Dies
Naomi Levy
#17. My wife divorced me because she could not trust me anymore.
I never want a divorce because I love and care about our daughter.
Toba Beta
#18. Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.
Ami Bera
#19. In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.
Khaled Hosseini
#20. Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.
Jeanette Winterson
#21. We must care about unbelievers because God does. Love leaves no choice. The Bible says, "There is no fear in love; perfect love drives out all fear."18 A parent will run into a burning building to save a child because their love for that child is greater than their fear.
Rick Warren
#22. [T]he parent-child relationship was one way, you gave them all your love and they were under no obligation to pay a penny back. Of course, if they did love you then that was the icing on the cake with cherries on top. And chocolate shavings and those little silver balls that cracked your fillings.
Kate Atkinson
#23. Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter ... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.
PJ Harvey
#24. I suppose that every parent loves his child, but I know, without any suppossing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares
Abbott Eliot Kittredge
#25. Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman.
Jennifer Donnelly
#26. One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.
H. L. Balcomb
#27. There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#28. I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald.
Anthony Liccione
#29. A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
Ann Brashares
#31. The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#32. CARE and our partner organizations have found that one of the most effective ways of stopping child marriage is to tap into a parent's love for their child. When parents learn about the consequences of child marriage, they're far less likely to push their children into it.
Helene D. Gayle
#33. Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
Phillips Brooks
#34. Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
#35. Everytime I hold you is the last time I hold you, I've known that since the very first time.
Joakim Zander
#36. Children need their parents' time and attention. Giving one's time is part of the work of love. It means being there for the child, attending to the child's needs rather than the parent's needs.
John Bradshaw
#37. Just because a child doesn't have both parents raising him or her, doesn't mean that child becomes half the person they were meant to be. One wonderful parent can love enough for two, and love will always be the biggest influence in a child's life.
Ron Baratono
#38. The parent-child connection was as deep and wide as the ocean, as mysterious as heaven, as impossible to explain as love.
Barbara Bretton
#39. It was a love story about a father and a son. The rest was window dressing. As a love story between a parent and a child, it was universal. Didn't matter that I was gay, that he was deaf, that we didn't fit in, that we were each outcasts in our own way
Nick Wilgus
#41. Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.
Criss Jami
#42. The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
Lisa See
#43. The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.
John Green
#44. Faithfully disciplining (training, educating, correcting) your child in a manner that pleases the Lord is an expression of biblical love. It also is a step of obedience for you as a parent and provides godly direction for your child.
John C. Broger
#46. What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
William Godwin
#47. 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
#48. It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.
Maria Montessori
#49. To be a husband or wife, to be a parent, is inevitably to be aware of so many disappointing, exasperating things about your mate or child, but at the same time to see those people in depth, to see them with both eyes, and to be reminded of why you still love them.
Harold S. Kushner
#50. You would be surprised at the healing power of a simple "I love you" from a dying parent to a child or vice versa. This is not always easy, of course, yet a lifetime of mistakes can be undone through forgiveness even at the end of a life.
Alberto Villoldo
#51. Through knowing death we can hold a beacon of love for every moment that has just passed, for every friend who has lost a friend, for every child who has lost a parent, for every parent who has lost a child; for any suffering anywhere.
Sebastian Pole
#52. I do not tell you often enough, dear Mother, how very grateful I am that I am yours. It is a rare parent
who would offer a child such latitude and understanding. It is an even rarer one who calls a daughter
friend. I do love you, dear Mama.
Julia Quinn
#53. As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.
Melinda Gates
#55. The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.
Elizabeth George
#56. If a parent does not know how to love and nurture a child while he is young, especially black boys, that child will grow up out of balance mentally, therefore feeling inferior.
Daniel Whyte III
#57. For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child,
Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild;
Christ, our God, to Thee we raise this our Sacrifice of grateful praise.
Folliott Sandford Pierpoint
#58. As a parent, it has been instructive to discover that the deep, instinctive love I feel for my own child is counterbalanced by the antipathy I feel towards other people's children.
Andy Miller
#59. There isn't anything a parent won't do for her child. There is no limit on love.
Adriana Trigiani
#60. An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent.
Jim George
#61. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-
great-children's will be. But we learn to live with that love.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#62. Love is the chain whereby to lock a child to its parent.
Abraham Lincoln
#63. Love makes requests, not demands. When I demand things from my spouse, I become a parent and she the child.
Gary Chapman
#64. You gotta love the cops. They start the night ready to shoot someone's eyes off and at the same time ready to carry a child with a grandmother's tenderness. Ready to shatter and ready to soothe at the touch of a trigger, a good cop is an amazing animal.
Marc Parent
#65. You don't understand,' she said, and there was a puzzling trace of resentment in her voice. 'Children never do. The love a parent has for a child, there's nothing else like it. No other love so consuming.
Cassandra Clare
#66. 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.
Robert Breault
#67. When you feel your child truly loves you back, it makes you wish you had kissed your parents more.
Carol Ann Susi
#68. My kids know you can make it if you take risks and work hard. That we can work in the system you lunkers set up. That's all a parent really needs to give his child. That, and how to love someone with all your soul.
Kim Harrison
#69. And that the love of a parent for a child is the most powerful force on earth.
Lucinda Riley
#70. It's a natural thing for a child to lose a parent. I lost my mom too young but it happened. And I'm happy she's out of pain, 'cause I love her and she's my friend.
Angelina Jolie
#71. Feeling the security and constancy of love from a spouse, a parent or a child is a rich blessing. Such love nurtures and sustains faith in God. Such love is a source of strength and casts out fear. Such love is the desire of every human soul.
David A. Bednar
