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

"To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today."

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

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

"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life."

"Love your children unconditionally, but don't spoil them."

"Where there is love, there is life—and parenting is the purest expression of love."

"A parent's love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."

"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it."

"The most precious jewels you’ll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children."

"Your children need your presence more than your presents."

"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."

"Parenting is not for the faint-hearted or the weak—it’s for the willing."

"Being a parent means loving your children more than you’ve ever loved yourself."

"The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice."

"Being a parent is learning to live with fear you never knew existed."

"It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too."

"Responsibility educates."

"A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it."

"There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one."

"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

"What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love."

"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."

"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."

"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."

"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."

"The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories."

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work."

"Having children is like living in a frat house—nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up."

"There are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child."

"Every child begins the world anew; through their eyes, we are reborn."

"The joy of parenting comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges, there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction."

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."

"Parenthood is the greatest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force."

"Each child brings their own blessing into the world."

"Children see magic because they look for it."

"There are two gifts we should give our children: one is roots, the other is wings."

"As your kids grow up, they may forget what you said, but they won’t forget how you made them feel."

"Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first."

"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."

"A wise parent humbles himself when necessary and loves his child unconditionally."

"To raise a child, it takes a village—and a lot of letting go."

"Hold your children close, but never hold them back."

"It’s not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings."

"Letting go doesn’t mean you stop caring. It means you care so much, you let them grow."

"Growing up is never easy, especially when you're the one watching them do it."

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."

"To the world you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world."

"A mother understands what a child does not say."

"Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had."

"No influence is so powerful as that of the mother."

"A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's."

"Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother."

"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children."

"A mother’s hug lasts long after she lets go."

"Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad."

"The power of a dad in a child’s life is unmatched."

"A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow."

"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me."

"Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song."

"The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking."

"A father carries pictures where his money used to be."

"Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice."

"Fathers, be your daughter’s first love and she’ll never settle for anything less."

"Parenting is the easiest thing in the world to have an opinion about, but the hardest thing in the world to do."

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."

"Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee."

"Becoming a parent is like folding a fitted sheet—no one really knows how."

"There should be a children’s song: ‘If you’re happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep.’"

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing."

"Parenting: where your bedtime is their cue to ask questions, get hungry, or need water."

"Having kids is like being pecked to death by a duck—but with love."

"Why don't kids understand that their nap is not for them but for us?"

"Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare."