Accounts Quote by Abigail Adams

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that…

— Michel de Montaigne

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

— William Godwin

Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which…

— Walter Pater

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in…

— William Bartram

Children require affection. That's very important.

— Sudha Murty

“Children should be witnesses of parental affection.”

— Asa Don Brown

“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our…

— Mary Shelley

“The parent who sedulously endeavors to form the heart and enlarge the understanding of his child has given that dignity to the discharge of…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the…

— Jean Piaget

“More often than not, it’s disrespectful to them (our children) - and disrespectful to their struggle with their tasks in life- if our own…

— Daniel Gottlieb

The person who received maximum affection from mother, that person also sort of cultivated the potential showing affection to others.

— Dalai Lama

I am now pretty far advanced in life, and all my views are center'd in the Happiness and well-fare of my children; you will…

— George Mason