Quotes About Love

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~

No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~

Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

The best gift is giving from your heart

It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.

Parenting is the most important profession in the world.

A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.

A father is a man who fails every day.

I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

Every happy home has a foundation of love and a framework of support

The world's greatest changes are made at home.