James Nesbitt Quotes

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

What I do with my kids is I tell them I love them every day, but also I tell them the truth.

My daughter has impressions that she does of me.

Every family goes through ups and downs. You may want a relationship with someone, which your family may not approve of but they don't stop loving you.

My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

I love my mother.

You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.

I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.

London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.

I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple.

I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.

With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once.

Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality.