Paul Lynde Quotes

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

We all have baggage from our upbringing! That's life!

I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.

I'm obsessed with my parents.

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.

I resemble the father I once hated.

Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.

As awkward as it sounds. I'm not Shane Larkin, Barry Larkin's son, anymore. It's Barry Larkin, the father of Shane Larkin.

I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.

I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.

I've never read one book about my father.

To be honest, I was Mum's boy. Always was, always will be.

I am a hopeless mamma's boy.

I never thought about the relationship of my mother, my family, to the content of my work.

Bihar has always drawn me, ever since I was a child, brought up on the stories about my grandfather Babasaheb Soman.

I've never really turned to my dad for anything, I think out of fear of the label of nepotism.

If I refused to get married, my parents would be brokenhearted and confused. Like any child close to her parents, I could not watch them suffer.

He doesn't know how to be warmer. I can't blame him. My dad had to deal with more stuff than I ever did.

My mom and I have always been very close since she did raise me as, like, a single mom. My friends and everyone I know are like, 'Wow, you guys really have a really good relationship.' She's with me a lot of the time, so people find that kind of shocking.