Children are the greatest gift that life can give us and with them we really learn what true love is . The love between a child and its parents is infinite, from the moment a child is born to its parents it becomes the most perfect being that has ever existed.

Having children is a wonderful thing and it is also one of the biggest personal challenges we can face, because the questions we may have about their education can be endless.

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Phrases about children and parental love

Would you like to know how thinkers and celebrities have dealt with this crucial moment in their lives? Below you can discover the 90 best phrases about children , which as parents can be of great help to us.

1. Every day of our lives we make deposits in our children’s memory banks. (Charles R. Swindoll)

The moments we live with our children will always be remembered.

2. The mother’s heart is the child’s classroom. (Henry Ward Beecher)

A mother’s love for her child is lifelong and will accompany her child at all times.

3. A mother’s arms are tender and the children sleep deeply in them. (Victor Hugo)

Since we are born our mother always gives us a big dose of confidence and security.

4. No love is as great as that which a father has for his son. (Dan Brown)

For a father, his son is his greatest concern and his greatest joy.

5. Every son quotes his father in his words and deeds. (Terri Guillemets)

The man or woman we become has much of the teaching of our parents.

6. The most important mark I’m going to leave on this world is my son. (Sarah Shahi)

Our children are the legacy we leave behind on Earth, material goods are lost but they will be the ones to keep our memory when we are no longer here.

7. When I get home, my daughter runs to the door and gives me a big hug, and everything that happened that day just fades away. (Hugh Jackman)

When we have children we want to spend as much time as possible with them, every minute is a gift to them.

8. One of the greatest gifts I’ve ever received is my daughter. (Ace Frehley)

Having children is always positive, they add to our lives.

9. Nothing says more about the soul of a society than the way it treats its children. (Nelson Mandela)

Childcare is something that all societies have advocated, as they are the most vulnerable representation that we men adopt.

10. As we try to teach our children everything about life, our children teach us what life is all about. (Angela Schwindt)

We must live life to the fullest, just as children do.

11. I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

Racial discrimination is a clear symptom of the ignorance of its defenders.

12. Being a parent teaches you the meaning of unconditional love. (Nicholas Sparks)

The greatest love we can ever have will be for our children.

13. Children are educated by what the adult is and not by their talk. (Carl Jung)

Our children learn from everything we do, our actions and words.

14. Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children do not think about yesterday or tomorrow. They only exist in this moment. (Jessalyn Gilsig)

When we are children we have a greater capacity to live in the moment, this capacity is unfortunately lost over the years.

15. Instruct a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it. (King Solomon)

Childhood is the time of greatest learning in the human being, it is the stage in which we learn what is right and what is wrong.

16. The soul is healed by being with the children. (Fedor Dostoyevsky)

Children’s joy can be contagious; we all rejoice in their happiness and innocence.

17. If you bring children into the world, love them with your heart and soul. (Alice Walker)

We must give our children as much love as we can, they will thank us.

18. One of the best reasons to have children is that they remind you of the joy of a day when it snows. (Susan Orlean)

The little things in life are the most beautiful and having children helps us to relive them.

19. Time becomes more valuable when you have children. (Mary of Denmark)

Having children also helps us to put our feet on the ground and be more pragmatic.

20. A good friend of my son is a son to me. (Lois McMaster Bujold)

Our children’s friends will be like children to us, for they will spend a lot of time in our company.

21. What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and many times I found that the son has made known the secret of the father. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Life goes round in circles and our children can teach us many things too.

22. I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my child. All I want is to be reunited with him. (Craig Kelly)

Being separated from our children is very painful and one of the worst feelings anyone can experience.

23. It’s much worse to read the reviews about your child than about yourself. (George H.W. Bush)

When other people talk about our child in a derogatory way, all of us parents feel seriously hurt.

24. If my days begin with a hug from my son, they are far more glorious than they were before. (Russell Crowe)

When we enjoy the love of our children we are much happier.

25. My son is a blessing in every way. (Elizabeth Emken)

We should be grateful for the gift that our children are in our lives.

26. If my son came to me and said, ‘I’m gay,’ I would say, ‘Son, I love you. (Kirk Cameron)

Our support for our descendants must be unwavering; we are their greatest inspiration.

27. It breaks your heart when your child does not love you. (Evel Knievel)

When we discuss with our children the emotional pain we feel can be enormous, we must undoubtedly reconcile ourselves.

28. Make it a rule not to give your child a book you wouldn’t even read yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)

We must not encourage anything in our children that we do not consider to be of value.

29. Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. (Oscar Wilde)

A child’s relationship with his parents may deteriorate over time, but they always have to support each other.

30. Don’t hurt your children’s lives by making them easier. (Robert A. Heinlein)

Teaching them the harshness of life is something we parents must do with our children, because if we don’t do it when they are alone, they won’t know how to take care of themselves.

31. There are orphans and widows in the English language, but there is no word for parents who have lost a child. (Jodi Picoult)

Losing a child is the worst thing that can happen to any parent, it is certainly a very complicated situation.

32. Your children need you to put everything into loving them as they are, not to spend all your time correcting them. (Bill Ayers)

Knowing how to educate our children can be a little complicated and we must put our greatest will power

33. When kids are one year old, it’s like being with a mini drunk. You have to hold them, they bump into things, they laugh, cry, pee, throw up. (Johnny Depp)

A great phrase from Johnny Depp where he shows us once again his great sense of humor.

34. Having children is like a fraternity house: nobody sleeps, everything is broken and there is a lot of vomiting. (Ray Romano)

The arrival of children in our home is something that undoubtedly changes it profoundly.

35. We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. (Harry Edwards)

Inspiring our children to choose their own life goals is every parent’s job.

36. Our daughters grow up with the same possibilities as our sons. (Betty Friedan)

Both boys and girls must grow up in a just and equal world, which unfortunately does not exist today.

37. Your children make it possible for you to forget the past. They are the best fruit… sometimes they are the only fruit. (Anna Quindlen)

Children are the greatest work of art that we as parents leave on earth, our legacy as individuals.

38. There is nothing that moves a father’s soul so much as to see his son crying. (Joni Eareckson Tada)

When we see our child go through a difficult time every parent is heartbroken.

39. Loving our children for more than their abilities shows them that they are much more than the sum of their achievements to us. (Eileen Kennedy-Moore)

They are much more than what they get, they are very much a part of who we are.

40. A son’s first teacher is his mother. (Peng Liyuan)

In the first years of life, children learn the basics from their parents.

41. There are two ways to travel: first class and with children. (Robert Benchley)

When we have children our way of traveling changes a lot, from places to transportation.

42. What feeling is better than having your child’s hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten curled up in the shelter of your brooch. (Marjorie Holmes)

It’s the little things we’ll remember most about our children’s childhood.

43. It seems that our children are more like us than we think: damaged from head to toe. (Jodi Picoult)

The negative aspects of us our children will also adopt, as they learn from us.

44. Do not limit a son to your knowledge, for he was born in another age. (Rabindranath Tagore)

We must provide children with the best education we can create as a society.

45. A child’s role is to live his own life, not to live the life that his anxious father thinks he should live. (A.S. Neill)

We must let our little ones live life in their own way and not impose our way of life on them.

46. The children should be the models to follow of us parents, since they are clothed with the spirit from which they came: clean, innocent, overflowing with the delight of life. (Gerry Spence)

From our children we can learn to live in the moment and believe that we can always start from scratch.

47. When I held my baby in my arms, I understood why people still have them. (Spalding Gray)

When we can finally hold our little baby in our arms, it’s one of the best moments every parent can have.

48. When you teach your children about respect, teach them how much they are worth as people. (Raising kids with good manners)

We must teach children to respect and to be respected; education is fundamental to them.

49. Children are a gift. They’re not for us to break, they’re for us to believe. (Dan Pierce)

Our descendants are an opportunity we have to leave someone better than us on earth when we are gone.

50. Don’t try to make your children grow up to be like you, because they might. (Russell Baker)

Our little ones are capable of being better than us, but it depends on the values that as adults we transmit to them that they achieve it.

51. It is a mistake to confuse our children with angels. (Douglas Coupland)

Children can be the way we want them to be, it’s up to us to make them good people.

52. Mothers and their children belong to a category of their own. There is no such strong bond in the whole world. There is no love so instantaneous and forgiving. (Gail Tsukiyama)

The mother-son bond is one of the strongest bonds in nature and can be unbreakable.

53. Babies don’t come with an instruction booklet. We all learn the same way, you will have to read about dinosaurs and Google about backhoes and skydivers. (Jodi Picoult)

Being a parent is an adventure, which in time we will learn to live naturally.

54. Raise your children to love and accept others. Tell them they are beautiful because they can grow up to be stars someday. And “beautiful” will mean more coming from you than from a magazine. (Kaiden Blake)

We are the greatest source of inspiration they will ever receive, we must rise to the occasion.

55. Children, like everyone else, deserve total respect. (Gerry Spence)

The respect that we adults must have for children must be total; they are defenseless beings who deserve to be protected.

56. Always kiss your children good night, even if they are already asleep. (Jackson Brown)

Affection is something that can never be lacking in the relationship between a father and a son.

57. One thing I learned from watching chimps with their babies is that having children looks like a lot of fun. (Jane Goodall)

Motherhood can be a very beautiful time and one that we will no doubt always remember.

58. Parents don’t know their children at all. No one really knows them. (Jenny Downham)

Among people there are always certain things we don’t know about each other, we all deserve to have our privacy.

59. Children represent the future, motivate them, support them and guide them. (Catherine Pulsifer)

Supporting the next generations is something that we as a society must do, with this we will achieve that humanity advances towards a better future.

60. I wonder if other mothers feel a pull inside them, as they watch their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted to be. (Jodi Picoult)

The pride we can feel as parents can be enormous, especially when we see that the values we pass on to the next generation strengthen them.

61. Teaching our children how to feed themselves and how to live in a responsible community is at the heart of education. (Alice Waters)

What children learn always comes from their parents, we are someone essential to them.

62. Being a parent doesn’t just mean having a child. It is about giving witness to your life. (Jodi Picoult)

Our work as parents will last us a lifetime, we must always be there in case one day we are needed.

63. The way we speak to our children becomes their inner voice. (Peggy O’mara)

As parents we make a big impact on our children’s lives, we must be very aware of that.

64. A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man. (Mario Puzo)

He who is not there for his child when he needs it should not consider himself a father.

65. I think when you become a father you go from being the star of the movie of your life to being the supporting character in someone else’s movie. (Craig Ferguson)

When we are our parents, our role in life becomes a little less relevant, because for us the main role is played by our children.

66. Before I got married I had six theories about how to raise my children; now, I have six children and no theories. (John Wilmot)

The reality of parenthood can be very different from how we had imagined it, but it can also be a wonderful experience.

67. It is not our job to harden our children to face a cold and cruel world. We must raise them to make the world less cruel and cold. (L.R. Knost)

The next generations will have the duty to make this world a better, kinder and more tolerant place.

68. Cleaning the house while your children are still growing is like cleaning the sidewalk when it hasn’t stopped snowing yet. (Phyllis Diller)

With children in the house, cleanliness and order are often conspicuous by their absence; it is useless to fight against the inevitable.

69. We spend the first years of our children’s lives teaching them to talk and walk and the rest of their lives teaching them to shut up and sit down. There is something wrong with that. (Neil DeGrasse Tyson)

The education they receive is one of the fundamental aspects to take into account in the childhood of every child, transmitting good values and customs is our responsibility.

70. The only love I believe in is the love a mother has for her children. (Karl Lagerfeld)

A mother’s love is the greatest love a person can feel, the most important love in our lives.

71. Adults never understand anything on their own and it’s a strain on children to always have to explain things to them. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

We can draw a lot of wisdom from how children live life, as adults we forget how to enjoy the little things.

72. Children should be taught how to think and not what to think. (Margaret Mead)

We must teach our little one the basic notions by which his life will be guided.

73. No matter what, if my son is gay, I treat him like a king. (Tracy Morgan)

Regardless of his or her sexuality, his or her happiness will always be the most important thing to us.

74. I’d like to be as good a man as my son is. (Mario Cuomo)

Children are a great source of inspiration for every parent.

75. I will love my son to the end. (Magic Johnson)

The great Magic Johnson shows us his unconditional love for his son in this beautiful phrase.

76. I’ve found a love I never thought I’d find through my son. It’s a strange feeling to know that nothing can come between us. (Colin Farrell)

In this quote Colin Farrell, an actor in great movies like Alexander the Great, tells us about the love he felt instantly for his son.

77. Every man is the son of his own works. (Miguel de Cervantes)

We must be careful with our words, for they largely define who we are.

78. I’d like my son to remember me as a good father. (Slim Whitman)

The title of being a good father is something that not all of us manage to achieve, our ways of acting can affect our child in an unwanted way.

79. My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son. (Farrah Fawcett)

The support that we as parents can give to our children is vital in their development.

80. When you teach your child, you teach your child’s child. (The Talmud)

In the past, the way to preserve a custom or technique was through its transmission from parents to children.

81. My proudest moment was when I gave birth to my son. (Christina Aguilera)

The moment of giving birth is perhaps the most decisive moment in a mother’s life.

82. All our children have a lot of potential. All our children deserve a chance in life. (Joe Baca)

We must give all our support and enthusiasm to the next generations to come into the world.

83. If you want your kids to be smart, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be much smarter, read them more fairy tales. (Albert Einstein)

Who better than Albert Einstein to give us some advice, to listen to him would be the best.

84. Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, for there is room in heaven for all the stars. (Victor Hugo)

We all go through many stages in life and parenting is a wonderful time.

85. Nothing is more precious than life… especially a child’s life. (Peter Diamandis)

Seeing life born, grow and develop is a wonderful thing, being parents we can do it.

86. My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into my children. (Maya Angelou)

Love in society is something that should manifest itself much more, to grow as a society we should be more empathetic to our peers.

87. Let’s work together to see what we can do in life for our children. (Sitting Bull)

The future lies with the children and protecting them is the mission of any society.

88. If I were asked to define motherhood, I would have defined it as love in its purest form. Unconditional love. (Revathi Sankaran)

This quote expresses very well the love that every mother feels for her child, something that at that moment in life we all share.

89. Children learn to smile from their parents. (Shinichi Suzuki)

Babies act with the same attitude as their parents towards a threat, which is certainly a very curious fact.

90. If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, my son can have peace. (Thomas Paine)

It is the wish of all parents that their children’s day-to-day life be perfect.