Greta Scacchi Quotes

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.

Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

I think naturally my orientation is from my father.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

You either become like your parents or you become the opposite of your parents. And I like to think that I'm the opposite of my parents.

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

People forget how the same children brought up with affection, effort, and love are the ones who later kick their parents.

While I loved my family, I would always have this association with my father. I would always be coming up against that conservatism. It was just liberating to be in London.

I think, a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.

I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.

It's funny 'cos I think a lot about kids who grow up with their parents being really important members of their fields, and they just go the opposite way.

I mean my mother always wanted us to be individuals. She always instilled that into our brains which was incredibly painful for an adolescent to deal with.

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?