Anthony Kiedis Quotes

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

My parents did a great job of raising me and my brother. Very supportive parents.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.

The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.

There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.

I realize that I was being the kind of parent that I thought my daughter needed. I was a good role model for her on what a working mom can do.

We are our children's first teachers.

Our father never had to yell at us much when we were growing up. No one ever wanted to let Dad down.

I think kids are in your temporary care, and that they probably arrive with pretty much the personalities they're going to have. I grew up in a perfectly traditional family and turned out how I did. I'm not sure there's much that the family can do except lots of love and lots of care and lots of chances for them to develop the best they can.

My father never raised his voice or his hand on me when I was a kid.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.

I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.

I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.

Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

I have a real no-nonsense dad who taught me how to be resilient at a very young age.