Betty Smith Quotes

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.

A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.

There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there's this monster - this tiger or lion - that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn't stop. It doesn't matter if they become men or women.

If I were to ask any parent, 'Do you love your kid?' the answer would unequivocally be, 'Yes.' If I went on to ask, 'What would you do to protect your kid from harm's way?' any rational parent would answer without skipping a beat, 'Anything.'

I don't know what my mom feels toward me or where the viciousness is coming from, but I just know that when I have kids, I will protect them. I would do anything for my kids and for my family. I know that.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

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

My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life.

If someone criticizes my child it's gonna hurt me a little bit, but it's my child, you know, and I love it regardless.

Nothing outside of my child is important.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.

You love your child, and you want to protect your child more than anything on this planet, and yet, by the time they're 17, 18, they're going to step into this world, and that world will not feel the same compunction, necessarily, toward your daughter.

I think that, being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.

I used to think that only a mother could provide unconditional love and make sacrifices.

When I became a father, I think that my understanding of what love was and my connection to that emotion shifted. I saw my children being born and recognizing what they call a miracle.

My sister, like our mother, always put her children first.

If anyone said anything sideways about my children, I would literally be in jail like, just straight up.