Jack Black Quotes

My father didn't push me.

I think sometimes it's hard, parent's expectations, wanting to be seen by the people in your family and feeling that you can't do that, you can't get them to see you the way that you want to be seen, and come to an understanding or find a way to talk that doesn't revert to bad habits.

When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.

Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.

Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.

Some guys that know me from when I was a kid say "My son, oh he's just like your father." It's just a natural part of our lives. But, within the music industry and within the industry of the critiques of music, where it becomes "Ziggy's music is not as good as Bob's music," I don't understand. But I don't really pay much attention to that because I'm just expressing myself.

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

Your father leaving your family, that's your bedrock for all your future relationships and that's your security when you're a kid.

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.

If your family - just because they're blood doesn't mean that they necessarily give you the best advice.

There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their diplomas hanging in my father's room and I got my gold records. I'd say he was more proud of the diplomas.

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.

The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.

My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience.

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

I'm glad you were both here," I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.