Susan Kelechi Watson Quotes

As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my parents had loving families but unstable upbringings, so they wanted us to have a more stable situation.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

I had that extroverted energy, and I always involved myself in quite adult conversations. My mum never hid us from that. There was never a kids' table; we were never treated as kids, per se, because I don't think she believes in that.

I was brought up as a normal kid.

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

I think that, any young child or teenager, you take a lot from your parents when you're growing up.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather in Edinburgh. He introduced me to books.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children.

I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.

If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.

Childhood is so important. Without a loving one, you're vulnerable throughout your life. We're all the things our parents are - the good and the not so good. Thankfully, I have a wonderful wife who's a brilliant mother.