1,263 Quotes About Parents

Her deep romantic nature prevented her from demanding, from asking for that quenching. She wanted it to come freely, like flowers that are sent and not requested.

Rosie knew this moment from raising four other children to this point already, the one where suddenly your kids know more than you do about something they've discovered all on their own, something real and important not just cartoons or video games. Amazing was exactly what it was." Chap. "Hedge Enemies

There is nothing like a loving mother.

More than children can know what’s good for their parents, the parents know what’s good for their children.

Every sacred marriage will survive all times with great love and patient commitment.

I am not good, and I told you so. Somehow I cannot forgive her for her neglect of me as a child, when I would have clung to her. Besides, I hardly ever heard from her when I was at school. And I know she put a stop to my coming over to her wedding. I saw the letter she wrote to Madame Lefevre. A child should be brought up with its parents, if it is to think them infallible when it grows up.

A strange thing has happened as I've aged; I have felt my parents' love for me more strongly every year.

I start trembling at the very thought of the unplanned and unknown, but inevitable and unstoppable force with which parents leave traces in their children that, like traces of branding, can never be erased. The outlines of parental will and fear are written with a white-hot stylus in the souls of the children who are helpless and ignorant of what is happening to them. We need a whole life to find and decipher the branded text and we can never be sure we have understood it.

It's hard for a parent to accept that you can't protect your child from everything.""It's hard for a child to accept it too," says Elsa, and pats him on the cheek.