Parent-Child Relationships Quotes

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

The romantic element is what the story Essential Maps for the Lost, sort of sits on, but all the stuff below the surface is really about family. It's about the baggage we bring, both the good and the hard stuff in that baggage. It's more about the other relationships. It's about mothers and fathers and sisters and dogs, all of the pieces. It's really more about - yes, love, in its widest usage.

Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.

I listen to heavy metal thanks to my son. When I argue with him on the kind of music he is listening to, he says, 'listen to it.' I listen and think well that is not so bad!

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

I agree, Dad. I was just explaining to the woman why we don’t look anything alike and why you would have been younger than me when I was born. It doesn’t mean I don’t love you ‘cause you know I do. Make one snotty comment in anger when you’re twelve years old going through puberty and getting grounded, and you pay for it for the rest of your life. Parents ain’t got no sense of humor. (Omari)

When I was small, in the early '70s, my mother took me to see 'Cooley High.'

At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

Well let me just say, for a man, a lot of how your approach and you're dealing with women comes from your mom.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

I'm very proud of Family Ties. It's meant a lot to a lot of people.

Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old. Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.

I didn't realize I was working in a family medium.

When I go home, I'm not the DA. I talk to my son about his day, I talk to my daughter about her day. I'm a wife and a mother.

I have four daughters, with the two youngest being four years old and a year and a half. When one of my older daughters was in sixth grade, a classmate brought in their talking Winnie the Pooh doll for show and tell, so the next week my daughter one upped her classmates and brought me to school in for show and tell.

If I had to give advice about parents, it would be this: Value your relationships with them. Those relationships are what you stand for. Not only are we blessed to wear a uniform that says PHILLIES on the front, but we have our names on the back. That name means you're playing for your family.

Families At War' is a show we are very proud of. It was a great show.

Children aren't fooled. They know we give time to the things we love.

Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.

Sunday nights, we have dinner together, and we play games on game night; once a year, we get away to ski - when you get kids out of their home environment, they're forced to be with you, and you have a captive audience.