Parental Pressure Quotes

My mother, God bless her, forced me to take touch typing when I was 16.

Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.

When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live in misery and die teaching other people's children badly.' My parents wanted the safer path for me, and I think they failed miserably achieving that.

I was good at keeping my mother from crying.

I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.

I've lived with someone and probably will again, but I don't want children and I have known that since I was little. My parents thought I would change my mind. My boyfriends always think I'm going to change my mind, but it never happened. I fall in love with my businesses.

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

You can't live your life through your children.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.

My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures.

My parents were obsessed with my education.

From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.

I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.

My dad was very strict. He was absolutely the Tiger Dad. You know, 'You got a 98% on this test? Why didn't you get 100?' That was normal life for my brothers and I.

I started playing football when I was ten years old, and the main reason was because I wanted to make my parents proud. I didn't even like the sport at the time, but it didn't matter to me.

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.'

I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

If you're at uni just because your parents have said so... There's a lot of success stories of people who have dropped out.

Because my parents are Muslim, there's no doubt they wished I would marry someone Muslim.

Chinese parents always think you can do better. But it comes from wanting you to succeed.