H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

I remember, the first time I gave Dad a proper hug, it was big.

I tell my kids, 'I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'

My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

I'm urgin all daughters to kiss their mothers with those lips that all that lipstick covers. You never too grown up to miss and hug her.

But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.

I love my mom. And this time, I told her I loved her. And she told me she loved me, too. And things were okay for a little while.

He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel’s heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just a little sway. Del’s hugs mattered, she thought, and made him impossible to resist.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

Heaven lieth at the feet of mothers.

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

We are always children to our mothers.

A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family home evenings in order to help him to discover, or to increase, his appreciation for his children. Next can come to him the courage to say I love you to each one.

This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and hidden limitations. That means that in addition to possibly wrecking you, I have the chance to give to you what was given to me: a decent childhood, more good memories than bad, some values, a sense of tribe, a run at happiness. You can't imagine how seriously I take that - even as I fail you. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence that I have ever done.

I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that.

James Wilkie is so conscious of the time we spend together. I try to be home to tuck him in at least four nights a week, and if I'm not, he's not letting me get away with anything. The other night I was sitting with him on the steps before Matthew and I went out to the theater, and he looked at me and said, 'Mama, this has got to stop. Go upstairs and take that dress off.'

And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips.

Tender as a mothers love... And with my mother, that was certainly true.

Always be involved in your children's lives. Life gets hectic but we have to find a way to always stay connected and let our kids know that they are loved.

I wanted to make sure that I did one movie in my career that mothers hug me for.

I don't understand why my fans ask for a hug, like, i don't mind, just come and hug me!

If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.

I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as is apt to come between people of strong feelings.