Nick Yarris Quotes

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

I went through quite a few establishments that maybe weren't great for myself - security units, youth-offender places. I guess that was going to the lions' den. Social services said, 'You've got to go to some sort of school.'

When I was a child, I had wax in my ears. Dad didn't take me to the doctor, he used me as a night light.

I had a very happy childhood.

I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8.

I can distinctly remember being the only boy in my class whose parents had separated.

You know, when I was a kid, I used to cry every day, like, when I was like, you know, 7 through 11 or 6 through 11, to the point where my brother and sisters would like - there was an ongoing joke where they would make me cry to keep my streak alive of crying every day.

I have to share my story. Not for me, but for the people who might go through the same thing and for juveniles who have gotten in trouble.

My parents were divorced when I was 2, so I don't remember much about them being together.

My childhood was so traumatic.

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.

I had good parents. Two older brothers, bit of a handful between us, all got ginger hair, a bit fiery. I remember a very happy childhood.

For my father the one calamity was that my brother and sister and I never learned to swim. My father, who was very macho, was a strong swimmer and was terribly disappointed to have children who didn't swim. Once when my mother was sitting in a beach chair - I can still see the big umbrella - she called to my father, "Throw them in! Throw them in! They'll swim!" So he did. Then he looked down, and there were the three Sendak children lying perfectly still underwater, not fighting for life!

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

I drank, I used drugs, I broke into houses, sniffed women's undergarments. I ate Benzedrex inhalers, jacked off for 18 hours at a pop, lived with my dad in a shitpad.

I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

I take responsibility for the times I was arrested and the things that I did. Me being 33 now, I look back on those times and I wish that a lot of things I didn't do. I wish I could have back because I see how much I influence people. People wanna follow in my footsteps and I wish that I can now do more positive things, and that back then I'd done more positive things.