Dave Morris Quotes

My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.

I've got a lot of issues. I've got a whole lot of daddy issues.

I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way.

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

I know plenty of Hollywood kids who still struggle with being whole. Their lives are never fully their own - always in the grip of a parent who put celebrity ahead of them.

My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

For many characters, the prospect of having a child in their life brings up a lot of issues about their own parents. And who doesn't love that? Bad mommy or daddy issues are a delicious staple in romance novels.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars.