Rick Riordan Quotes

Nobody at fifteen wants anybody to see how goofy their parents are.

I find that relationships between kids and parents are very interesting.

Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.

Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

Here's a trick to giving the birds-and-bees talk: You gotta do it in a car, so they can't escape. That's what all my girlfriends' parents did.

I don't know anybody that has a teenage son or daughter who at some point hasn't been like, 'God, I hate them' just under their breath. It's not meant to be literal. It's funny.

When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

I think that it's awkward watching a video with your mom, particularly when you're making out with a girl or a sexy scene. I would rather be away from that!

I know the world is pretty intense, but in my opinion, there's nothing more perilous than being a teenager and watching a raunchy comedy with your parents.

Whatever your age, parents generally embarrass their children. I think that's a role we have to play.

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

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

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.

I'm sure that there's frustration that comes with wanting to just have a normal mom. But, I don't really know if they see it as any different than any other problem you might have with a parent. I think everybody can think about one thing that their parents used to do, all the time, that would embarrass you.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

Our natural thing to do when we break away from our parents and our family is to decide in how many ways they were wrong and bad, and the older you get you start to realize, "By 'bad' I mean 'different'" and then you get a little bit older and you think, "And by 'different' I mean 'pretty awesome but just not like me.'"

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.