Desire Quote by William Watson Purkey

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love…

— Erich Fromm

A mother never fails to raise her child full with motherly love. One can never understand a true mother's feelings until one becomes parents.

— Nm6

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

— Washington Irving

“Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not. We heal our…

— Andrew Solomon

“A parent's love is unconditional. A parent's satisfaction comes with caveats.”

— Ron Fournier

“The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation,…

— David Bergen

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.…

— Washington Irving

“And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents;…

— Sydney J. Harris

We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out…

— Frank Pittman

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own”

— Aristotle

I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to…

— Madonna Ciccone

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother

— William Somerset Maugham