Bruce Eric Kaplan Quotes

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

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

I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.

My mother always thought if her mother hadn't left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened.

Mother never said to me, 'Stay out of trouble.' She didn't have to!

I had good parents. My mother had morals and standards and she brought us up to be good kids - some of the families around were just laws unto themselves, it was really tribal.

My father didn't make us fighters, he made us teachers.

I had that extroverted energy, and I always involved myself in quite adult conversations. My mum never hid us from that. There was never a kids' table; we were never treated as kids, per se, because I don't think she believes in that.

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.

I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

I probably gave up on my dad when I was born.

I've heard that my father was a really funny man in company, but I never got to see that side of him. I was just 17 when he died, and he didn't know that I was funny.

My father never really encouraged me or even took an interest after I walked away from the family business. No one did except my mother and my grandfather. To be truthful, I cannot remember one meaningful conversation I had with my father.

I'm actually a mummy's boy.

I mean my mother always wanted us to be individuals. She always instilled that into our brains which was incredibly painful for an adolescent to deal with.

I think how strict my mother's home could be with my mom and my stepfather, there was a fluidity and freedom in my dad's existence that I enjoyed when I was around him, though the responsibility was just different. He expected me to carry myself a certain way without all the rules and confines.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.