Parent Quotes

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Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But

Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world.

Death Humanity Children Gratitude Parent Human Nature Epiphany Insight Contradictions Contradictory Love And Death Love And Loss

My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love

My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love.

Parenting Children Inspirational Parent Special Needs Down Syndrome

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknow

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

Child Parent

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was abo

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Life Child Parent Witness

I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I

I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.

Children Parent

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way.

Father Parent Hold Hug Picoult

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but th

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

Language Loss English Child Inadequacy Of Words Lose Mourning Parent