Frank Pittman Quotes

I'm a mama's boy.

If I refused to get married, my parents would be brokenhearted and confused. Like any child close to her parents, I could not watch them suffer.

I'm actually a mummy's boy.

How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

I'm very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I'm very much a mommy's boy.

I'm a bit of a mummy's boy.

Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.

To be honest, I was Mum's boy. Always was, always will be.

I am a hopeless mamma's boy.

I was a real mummy's girl - still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I'm still working out. I love that man!

I am a momma's boy, so she gets whatever she wants.

My parents did not encourage romances.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

We are always children to our mothers.

A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

You know the troubles I've had with my two older children. I can't understand why it turned out so badly. I tried to give them everything. I loved them and tried to keep them near me, even when they didn't return my love. Well, I couldn't make them love me, but they could have shown some respect. I couldn't insist on love, but I could insist on respect.

Men often marry their mothers.

They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them