Sigmund Freud Quotes

A boy's best friend is his mother.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything.

The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.

I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.

My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid - and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.

I don't think I was a monstrous child. I don't think I was ever allowed to be.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

I spent pretty much every minute of my life with my mom.

My mother and I naturally have a tremendous bond. There's, like, a bond that you just can't break with us.

No matter how big of a man I am and how big of a stage I play on, I'm always my mom's baby.

I steadfastly believe that there is no greater love than that between a mother and a child.

My mother was my world.

I think the emotion between a child and a mother is the most beautiful and honest emotion you will ever get to see.

I have said many times: We have self-esteem or don't, based on how we were raised! Self-esteem is normally produced in your first 7-8 years of life.

I was a mama's boy.

I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.

I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.

The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.

I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.