Emo Philips Quotes

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

My parents are really quite strict, so I have to be home at a certain time - even now, at the age of 25.

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

My house was very strange. I didn't do things other kids did because my parents were very strict - I stayed at home, quiet in my room.

My parents were strict. They weren't as strict on me as they were with the others, but my mother didn't want us to get on anyone's nerves... Go to someone else's house and drive their parents crazy. Another thing was they didn't want us to get into a lot of things that a lot of kids - if they're not careful - can slip into.

My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

In my house, I'm not allowed to shout at anybody. It's very strict. It's a very Christian home.

My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

My parents were very, very strict parents, and they were not used to this new, you know, American custom of letting your children sleep in someone else's house.

I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.

I come from a family where two wheelers were not allowed. No seriously not even a tiny cycle around the compound.

My parents were very strict and had rules for me and, if ever I was playing outside, I always had a set time to come back in.

I was very strict on that point. No devouring classmates." Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Other parents warn their kids not to talk to strangers. I had to warn mine not to eat them.

I usually have to be home by 10 o'clock and my mom takes my computer away at 10.30pm every night.

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics.

My mom wouldn't let me sing 'Strawberry Wine' because it had 'wine' in it.

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

I bet you never thought the hardest part of finding your ‘saviorʹ would be getting her mom to let her stay out past curfew.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will--that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.

If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the book banners want to control what every child reads.