Corey Feldman Quotes

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

My mother's feeling about men in general were always a bit of a mystery to me. She had difficulties in Puerto Rico with the men in her life. Her brothers abused her. It's very easy to be judgmental, but more often than not, there are mitigating circumstances, and children are not usually aware of those.

All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment.

My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.

I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.'

My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

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.

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.