Elizabeth Berg Quotes

I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her.

My sons have such a deep access to my heart.

But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.

For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.

I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinking this was the first person I would willingly die for. I had the same strong feelings when my daughter was born.

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

Everything I see, I now see through a mother's eyes.

When I look up and see a star, I know my mom is there. She's with me all the time. It's a powerful connection.

I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated, and I did wonder if I would have to 'pretend' with my grandchildren. But my heart was taken on day one.

My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

When you have children love is always there in the best form.

Until you have a child, you won't really understand that you would actually throw yourself in front of a bus for your child. Like, you don't really get it. Like, it's like, 'Hell no.' You know, 'She's only two. I can make another one.' You know? But, you know, you have a baby, and then you actually care about this person.

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We've gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving.

My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.

I've had two great loves: my mother and my daughter.

In my house, my mother is my superhero.

I have a four-year-old son, and he is the most important thing in the world to me.

My mom is my heart.

My parents are no more but I am sure they are up there smiling and supporting me.

My dad is my heart. My family is my heart.

I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his clothes. He will always fit into it. When he gets out of the car and I meet him and hug him, there he is, him himself, something of my very own forever, and my love for him goes all around him just as it did when he was a baby and a little boy and a young man grown.