Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.

I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.

I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

It's impossible for me to disentangle how much of my storytelling urge is the product of growing up with novelist parents and how much is a genetic legacy from those same parents.

I've always kind of gotten my personality from my mom, and whether that's 'star quality' or whatever... a lot of her is in me.

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.

I would say my relationship with my father has had a bigger impact on me than I knew. Even with the things that I love, the things that I am attracted to. A lot of it stems from the things that I've seen in my life as a child.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

I hate to be a broken record - my parents have a lot to do with that too, because that's how they live their lives.

I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.

If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

All of us are products of our childhood.

I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving their heritage to their children - their unfulfilled desires, their incomplete ambitions. In this way diseases pass on from one generation to another.

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to put together a family life. I didn't see a family life where men were thriving inside of it. You know, my dad tended to blame the family for his inability to achieve what he wanted to achieve, you know? So, unfortunately, I was coming from that particular frame of mind.

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.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.