Parental Longing Quotes

Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.

Charlie and I were never blessed with children.

I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.

For me, if I'm away from my son for more than 48 hours, I'm crabby.

God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.

I miss my kids sometimes and that can get me down when I've been away working, but then I wake up and recognize how incredibly lucky I am. Spending time being down is less time out there achieving and enjoying.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

I work every day, and every year I spend seven months away from my family. I miss my kids' birthdays, and those are times I will never be able to go back on and share with them. That kills me.

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

Living without my children in Manchester has been incredibly challenging for me.

I was ravenous for my child and took to gorging myself in the boneyard, hoping that she might possibly meet me halfway, or just beyond, one night, if only for an instant—step back into her own bare feet, onto the wet grass or fallen leaves or snowy ground of the living Enon, so that we could share just one last human word.

It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad. You said you were looking for it. You told Mom you were. I found it for you so you don't have to look anymore. So you can come home at night.

You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.

If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains.

I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.

More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.

I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

I've always wanted to be what my father never was to me.

It breaks my heart that I don't see my daughters every day, don't get to hug them and brush their hair.

I don't want to wake up and see my kids going off to college and wonder what happened.

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

I think if you talk to anybody who would like to have had children... I mean, you look at families all the time and you see there is something there that you don't have.