There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
Love and friendship exclude each other.
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.