Bob Harper Quotes

I have the most incredible parents and they didn't put pressure on me. I grew up in a house and no matter what they thought of things, it was always about my choice.

I will be even more strict than my dad, because look at me, I turned out fine.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.

Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.

My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

Do you love the truth more than you need to be loved, or do you need to be loved more than you love the truth?

I used to scream at everybody at the beginning of my career. I'd get really emotional. I'd project all my issues about my parents and safety onto the executives, so every conversation where they gave a note was life or death and you don't love me.

Most of us have grown up, you know, I think there are very few people who have grown up in a home that was, like, super normal. You know, we all have dispositions because maybe you didn't have a mom or you didn't have a dad, maybe your mom died early or maybe mom and dad argued or they got a divorce or who knows? You have issues that maybe you've started younger or maybe you have your own issues because you have them.

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

I didn't really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents never did drugs or anything. They just believed in freedom in the best sense of the word.

In the end, the type of parent you are is going to be something that you carry with you. ... Having multiple kids, it's been a gift in a way. It's keeping the priorities straighter.

Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.

I'm so grateful to my parents for my upbringing and for all of the opportunities that I was provided with, but I also learned at a young age that success is not given, it is earned and that has always been something that motivates me.

The only person with you all your life is you. Your parents die. Things inside you die — illusions, gushes of personality. Only you can sort yourself out. Yourself may not be all you need, but it’s all you’ve got.

Our parents are our first oppressors.

What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?

Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?