Pat Conroy Quotes

My beautiful son... I can't wait to see his face, hug him, and spend time with him.

My mom and my dad was the best example of unconditional love I could see as a kid. I've known it my whole life. Interactions, kissing, hugging - it definitely wasn't the fake love.

I always felt love from both my parents.

The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.

I'm always crying. I get a lump in my throat when I see intimacy between parents and their children.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

Nothing beats having this beautiful child look at me and say mum. I get soppy all the time.

My children are lovely. They're perfect.

I can't say no to my girls. They melt my heart. I'm very grateful for my family.

I'd like my children to remember all the cuddles and bedtimes, and that I worshipped them unconditionally.

To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.

I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But what kind of love is that? It seems to me that comes down to, 'I'm not oblivious to you - that is, you can still hurt my feelings - but I can't stand having you around.' Who wants to be loved like that? Given a choice, I might skip the deep blood tie and settle for being liked. I wonder if wouldn't have been more moved if my own mother had taken me in her arms and said, 'I like you.' I wonder if just enjoying your kid's company isn't more important.

I love to hug my children. I love to tell them I love them every day before they leave for school or before I leave for work. And I think that's the most important thing you can do as a father is to make sure that your children know they're loved.

Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.

The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before.

I love my kids and would rather be with them than anyone in the whole wide world.

But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle.

My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.

My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming.

Children are the most amazing thing in the universe, as far as I'm concerned. If you're worrying about how it's going to turn out, you aren't experiencing that day-to-day satisfaction of being with these incredible, extraordinary creatures. Every single one of them is the most incredible, extraordinary creature that you're ever going to want to see. I think the joy of having that deep relationship - that's the core of what being a parent is.

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.