Quotes About Parents Love For Children

#1. Like other parents in this country, we want to give our children the best opportunities, to shower them with love, to teach them respect and a love for the rich and diverse traditions America has to offer them. - Author: Jennifer Chrisler

#2. A large portion of Christ's miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that ear gone deaf to-day? Will He not do for our children's souls what He did for the bodies of the ruler's daughter, and the dead youth at Nain? - Author: Theodore L. Cuyler

#3. Our parents taught us to love God, love our family and love our country. Their own grandparents were immigrants. Their first language may not have been English, but the hopes and dreams they had for their children were purely American. - Author: Martin O'Malley

#4. The love for a child is more an unconditional sort of love ... Although some parents are really narcissistic. In general, I think there is an expectation that love will be unconditional, but obviously it's not - even after living with someone for years. - Author: Kim Gordon

#5. We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and our job as friends is to fix each other's pain. Maybe that's why we all feel like failures so often - because we all have the wrong job description for love. - Author: Glennon Doyle Melton

#6. I read to my children, and now they love to read. I encourage parents to carve out just 20 minutes a day. It helps you learn more about them, and really opens the door for you to speak into their life! - Author: Victoria Osteen

#7. It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do. - Author: Joan Blades

#8. Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics. - Author: Simon Soloveychik

#9. To all you parents out there, don't make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them. - Author: Lisa Bedrick

#10. He loved them deeply, but sometimes love becomes a power game between the ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves. - Author: Witi Ihimaera

#11. Children are the most important asset in a country. For them to become that asset, they must receive education and love from their parents. - Author: Nelson Mandela

#12. Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us? - Author: Thomas S. Monson

#13. At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar relief for parents or children or husbands or wives or others who love them. - Author: David Sheff

#14. The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference between duty and delight. Therefore, the first and most important job of a parent is to fall in love with the worship of God. You can't impart what you don't possess. - Author: John Piper

#15. I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation. - Author: Caitlin Flanagan

#16. Lack of love from parents often motivates their children to go searching for love in other relationships. This search is often misguided and leads to further disappointment. - Author: Gary Chapman

#17. Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishing, or trying, to retard this growth is one of the deepest sins. - Author: Sydney J. Harris

#18. Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children. - Author: Michael Morpurgo

#19. I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others. - Author: Blanche Lincoln

#20. For parents who do not want children questioning their values are not parents who love their children, but rather, who love themselves through their children. - Author: Neale Donald Walsch

#21. Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making. - Author: Dan Pearce

#22. Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create. - Author: Walter Lippmann

#23. As parents, we have the responsibility and the power to create a foundational love for nutritious foods that will influence our children's choices for decades to come, setting the stage for our children, grandchildren, and future generations to flourish in wellness and health. - Author: Leah Borski

#24. I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life. - Author: Penn Jillette

#25. Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do
have reasons, locked in the depths of their personalities, for their inability to love, to understand, to give of themselves to their children. - Author: Virginia Mae Axline

#26. 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. - Author: Helene D. Gayle

#27. I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves. - Author: Martha Finley

#28. I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet." Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams. - Author: Andrew Young

#29. What we love, we protect. This story will delight children and parents alike, who care for what they love. - Author: Zoe Weil

#30. I would have to name two people - my parents. I've seen them come through adversity and work hard to create the best life for me and my siblings. Although I don't remember them together as a couple, I remember the love they had for their children. - Author: Dwyane Wade

#31. We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us believe in. That is our only obligation. And it is even then a choice which we may sometimes be wise to ignore. - Author: Warren Eyster

#32. 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. - Author: John Bradshaw

#33. By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments. - Author: Eileen Kennedy-Moore

#34. those who have inherited their fortunes than of those who have acquired them; the makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, - Author: Plato

#35. We are created in the image of our heavenly parents; we are God's spirit children. Therefore, we have a vast capacity for love - it is part of our spiritual heritage. - Author: Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#36. Of course, some families cannot be saved and their children cannot be returned. Yet, even then, their love for each other must be worth something. - Author: Andrew Bridge

#37. Some things were not possible in this world. Children did not have two parents who refused to love them. One, maybe, but for pity's sake, not two. - Author: Sue Monk Kidd

#38. It is important that parents pour out their love self-sacrificially for their children, which includes practicing what they preach, i.e. living in the love of Christ and seeking to emulate His example in their daily lives. - Author: Joseph Pearce

#39. Children are God's homework assignment to parents. We are commissioned to love, teach and train them up for successful adulthood. - Author: Stephen Kendrick

#40. It is the responsibility of parent to love and care for their children. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#41. Perhaps God's providence is nowhere more evident than in the fact that he gives parents twelve years to develop a love for their children before he turns them into teenagers! Chapter 18 contains some sobering words - Author: Anonymous

#42. As parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this. - Author: Barack Obama

#43. I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled. - Author: Michael Gove

#44. Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us? - Author: Augustus Hare

#45. Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood. - Author: Mata Amritanandamayi

#46. So, my brother and I, over the last two years, went back through Scripture and pulled every (passage) we could in relation to parenting children, guarding their hearts, teaching them, loving them, being patient. And then we worked through 40 principles and wrote The Love Dare for Parents. - Author: Alex Kendrick

#47. 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. - Author: Ron Baratono

#48. I cannot separate the man you are now from the boy you were then, and it's killing me.
I wanted everything for you, son.
I still do. - Author: Blake Crouch

#49. 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. - Author: James E. Faust

#50. Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers. - Author: Shannon L. Alder

#51. Children leave ... and parents stay behind. Still, some things are deeper than time and distance. And your father will always be your father ... And he will always leave a light on for you. - Author: Fred Savage

#52. Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they'd choose to hate themselves. Love and violence became so intertwined for them that when they grew up and got into relationships, only hysteria could set their hearts at ease. - Author: Ryu Murakami

#53. Love is the most precious gift in life. Be grateful for all the love and support you get from your parents, your family and friends. Because nothing is as precious as receiving true and devoted love" - Monsieur Jac Couture - Author: Lily Amis

#54. A strange thing has happened as I've aged; I have felt my parents' love for me more strongly every year. - Author: Bo Caldwell

#55. The disobedience of our children should never take us by surprise as parents, EVER. That is our high calling as parents, to direct, train, nurture, love and shepherd our chil dren. It is important we move from irritation with our children and move toward op portunity for training. - Author: Kara Tippetts

#56. My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them. - Author: Olivia Williams

#57. Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections. - Author: John Ruskin

#58. It's like parenting. The hardest, most intensive time comes at the very beginning. We still love those babies as they grow into daredevil children, recalcitrant teens, and parents setting eyes on their own babes for the first time. We just get a little more sleep while we do it. - Author: Debora Geary

#59. I believe that parents who love their children do everything for them with love, even discipline. - Author: Ellen J. Barrier

#60. Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never! - Author: James Sheridan Knowles

#61. You ought to love and care for your parents in their old age. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#62. Nothing trains and teaches so powerfully as love. Love attracts. it does not coerce. If the aim of parents is to teach their children to love God they must show their love for Him by loving each other and loving the children. - Author: Elisabeth Elliot

#63. For some parents of children with horizontal identities, acceptance reaches its apogee when parents conclude that while they supposed they were pinioned by a great and catastrophic loss of hope, they were in fact falling in love with someone they didn't yet know enough to want. - Author: Andrew Solomon

#64. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who surround you, you have to do equally with your life, because its yours, its you, and its always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it. - Author: Cecelia Ahern

#65. A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to protect their children from suffering. - Author: Sharon Salzberg

#66. Love for me is my North Star. It's the highest form of grace. And I love that there's different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it's love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner. - Author: Ben Harper

#67. 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. - Author: Lana Del Rey