Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

Even more than we want good love for ourselves, we want it for our children, those vulnerable satellites of our hearts that we send, unsteady, into the world.

I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.

Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.

Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to that child. I have born two children and had seven others by adoption, and they are all my children, equally beloved and precious.

I'm providing myself to my children. I'm loving them unconditionally, accepting them unconditionally.

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.

I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children.

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

The only thing I know is that no one ever sat in a therapist's or a psychiatrist's room saying, 'My parents just loved me too much.' The only thing you can do is love them and be around. Kids don't really care what your car is like or how big their house is. All they really care about is that you are around.

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

If your family loves you, you're fine. What you can't grow up without is love.

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?

My children were the center of my life.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.