Parents Love Quotes - Page 2

• It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

  Joyce Maynard

  Family, Mother, Children

  Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Love, God, Country

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1850). “Royalty and Republicanism in Italy: Or, Notes and Documents Relating to the Lombard Insurrection, and to the Royal War of 1848”, p.118, London, C. Gilpin

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

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

  Josh Billings

  Family, Children, Dad

  Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”

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• If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• 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

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.148, Penguin

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• 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?

  Augustus Hare

  Children, Powerful, Son

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• Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

  C. Everett Koop

  Love, Teacher, Children

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• 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.

  Pope John Paul II

  Family, Children, Home

  Pope John Paul II, Tony Castle (1987). “The light of Christ: meditations for every day of the year”, Crossroad Pub Co

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• The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

  Arnold Bennett

  Children, Parenting, Funny Parent

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• I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humor, Parenting

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• One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

  Jim DeMint

  Mom, Fathers Day, Dad

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• I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, Funny Inspirational, Children

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Sports, Hero

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• Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

  Sam Levenson

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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

  Graham Greene

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  The Power and the Glory pt. 1, ch. 1 (1940)

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• There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Daughter, Children

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.

  Barack Obama

  Fathers Day, Jobs, Dad

  Twitter post from Jun 19, 2011

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• Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.

  Karen Horney

  Christian, Honesty, Children

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• A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided.

  Robert Breault

  Mother, Single Mom, Love Is

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  Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Children, Parenting, Too Much

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard: Olympians”

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• Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave in ways thatgive their parents pleasure rather than displeasure. it may even be our own long-ago fear of losing our parents' love that now sometimes makes us uneasy about setting and maintaining limits. We're afraid we'll lose the love of our children when we don't let them have their way.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Motivation, Powerful

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.68, Penguin

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• Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad.

  Gary Smalley

  Mom, Dad, Children

  Gary Smalley, John T. Trent (1992). “The Language of Love”

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• 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

  Children, Disappointment, Parent

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• At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

  Jane D. Hull

  Positive, Success, Children

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