Graham Nash Quotes

My mom and my dad never pushed me into performing. They never prohibited me from trying anything, or being anything. They never restricted me in any way. For which I'll be forever grateful.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.

I didn't have a lot of the advantages Donald Trump had, but I had the most important ones you can get, which are loving parents who cared about me and helped me develop a sense of self.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

Without my parents and their love and support in my life, I would not be who I am or where I am today.

Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

My parents really encouraged me.

I got lucky with my parents. They were unfailingly loving and supportive, which gave me confidence about my place in the world.

It doesn't matter what a family looks like as long as you get the love, support and encouragement to be whatever you want to be and do great things in life.

I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.

Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father.

My parents have always been there to really support anything I wanted to do or learn - they provided the opportunity for me. I was very blessed in that sense.

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing.

I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.

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

My parents were there: in front of me, behind me, in the middle of my life at all times: reprimanding me, giving me confidence, teaching me valuable lessons, to help make me the man I am today.

My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me.

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.

I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.