Parental Love Quotes

“Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“That's how they say it: He loves you in his own way. Well, what about my way? What if I need for him to love me in my way?”
― Tammara Webber, Between the Lines

“I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“Well, sir, do you mean to remain there, commending my father’s taste in wine, or do you mean to accompany me to Ashtead?”
“Set off for Ashtead at this hour, when I have been traveling for two days?” said Sir Horace. “Now, do, my boy, have a little common sense! Why should I?”
“I imagine that your parental feeling, sir, must provide you with the answer! If it does not, so be it! I am leaving immediately!”
“What do you mean to do when you reach Lacy Manor?” asked Sir Horace, regarding him in some amusement.
“Wring Sophy’s neck!” said Mr. Rivenhall savagely.
“Well, you don’t need my help for that, my dear boy!” said Sir Horace, settling himself more comfortably in his chair.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy

“The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“There is no death in remembrance. Remember me, Sarah. Remember me, and a part of me will always be with you." - Martha Carrier to her daughter, Sarah Carrier”
― Kathleen Kent, The Heretic's Daughter

“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, City of Ashes

“If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.”
― Jane Gardam, Old Filth

“Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Our children want more than presents, that want our PRESENCE.”
― Heather Schuck, The Working Mom Manifesto

“I'll never forget the stillness, the hesitation, and a trace of something I'd never before seen on Ghosh's face: cunning. Then it gave in to resignation and a faraway look. For a moment I saw the world through his eyes, his intellect, his sweeping vision...a vision that recapitulated our birth and looked to the future, looked past his life to the end of mine and beyond. And then and only then did it settle, gather, and focus, on the now, on a moment when the love was so palpable between father and son that the thought that it might end, and this memory be its only legacy, was unacceptable.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“When love is unreliable and you are a child, you assume that it is the nature of love -- its quality -- to be unreliable. Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning the love you get is the love that sets.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“我慢慢地,慢慢地瞭解到,所謂父女母子一場, 只不過意味著,你和他的緣分就是今生今世不斷地在目送他的背影漸行漸遠.你站立在小路的這一端, 看著他逐漸消失在小路轉彎的地方,而且, 他用背影默默告訴你:不必追.”
― 龍應台, 目送

“I have a son,' says JJ, marveling at the sound and truth of the words...

'You know, I love you and Mom... But I don't even know this baby and the love- ' JJ clears his throat and wipes his suddenly wet eyes with the back of his hand. 'It's bigger. I'd lie down in traffic for him right now. I didn't know it could get bigger.'

Joe nods. 'This is only the beginning.”
― Lisa Genova, Inside the O'Briens

“Your life isn't about me, honey. My life is about you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I mean , I never even had to really come out to my parents. They always knew, and it was always okay. Or not even okay, better than that. Not something that had to be evaluated at all. It just was. Like having brown hair.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“Such a fine gift would have taken weeks of Chiron's deft shaping; he must have begun it almost the day that we left. Did he know, or only guess at Achilles' destiny? As he lay alone in his rose-colored cave, had some glimmer of prophecy come to him? Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.

Yet this beautiful spear had been fashioned not in bitterness, but love. Its shape would fit no one's hand but Achilles', and its heft could suit no one's strength but his. And though the point was keen and deadly, the wood itself slipped under our fingers like the slender oiled strut of a lyre.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Dreaming of hugs and your happy sight,
Your first hello made everything right.
No guidebook needed, just me and you,
We'd make our own story, just us two.”
― Gel See, With Love, From Mom: The Journey of Dreams

“Before I quit my job, I overheard my Boss say some nasty stuff about trans. When I didn't show up for work the next day he called me and asked where I was. I said, "I'm right next to you." He said, "No you're not. I don't see you." So I replied, "That's because I'm a Transparent.”
― James Hauenstein

“Колку пати сме го оставиле чедото дома само затоа што сме морале да работиме. Сме го оставиле и паметот до кај него, а нашето тело тргнало на работа? Но, тоа само ние го знаеме. Децата се свесни за нашето отсуство, но не и за нашата растргнатост во мигот. Тие знаат дека им недостигаме, но не знаат колку нам ни недостигаат. Колку се тие сиот свет во нашите очи. Колку жртви би поднеле за нив. И колкави планини би поместиле за нив. И само за нив!”
― Билјана Мартиновска, Заборавениот куфер

“I join thousands of parents globally in advocating for our daughters to accept their natural bodies and for the cessation of the harmful notion that only a “new one” will bring happiness.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“I guess things will change, but not completely. Your parents might not be together, but they love you as much as always. That won't ever change,”
― Chloe Taylor, Knot Too Shabby!

“I am not to blame, you know,
whether the child is male or female.
God who created and who watches over mankind
has decreed that the mother should be happy
and the father pleased with any child.”
― Heldris de Cornualles de Cornualles

“The Musket's Progeny by Stewart Stafford

The musket's progeny, gunpowder's rise,
Heirloom ingot cast in festering dirt,
No scaldy-faced defecator's lies,
Can tarnish gold's immutable worth.

Besmirched, perpetual gleam to my eyes,
Ne'er base, but plundered from thy berth,
Another's private treasure, I cannot despise,
Until thy loan fadeth i' th' afterbirth.

With cloistered secrets to impart,
Our correspondence doth expand,
Let it encompass thy tiny heart,
For when it groweth to understand.

When from distant quays, emotion sails,
My words guide thee in storms and gales.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“A man’s heart holds room for many kinds of love. Women should understand that a man will always hold a deep love for his mother, as she represents comfort, warmth, and care—something he’s known since the womb. This love is rooted in solace and nurturing. The love for a partner, however, is different; it’s a love fueled by passion, connection, and desire. Each love has its own place and unique meaning.”
― Siddharth Katragadda, Dark Rooms

“I had always craved a close relationship with my father, yet neither he nor I knew how to make it happen.”
― Mark Wolynn, It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

“Parental love is incomparable and unrivalled.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Daddy wasn’t just my father. He was my biggest cheerleader.”
― Scarlet Ibis James, Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire

“He wished for her life to be filled with more opportunities than he had ever had. (Story: Behind the Grand Doors of Paradise)”
― Scarlet Ibis James, Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire