Rick Nielsen Quotes

The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.

You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

Parents try the best they can. They want the best for you. But a lot of their stuff is just their own. If you can pull yourself away from it and not always feel like they're attacking you, then it's easier to deal with.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.

Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby.

My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.

My dad was not happy about my not becoming an architect like him.

I love my dad and respect him and miss him, but I never hung around my father that much because my dad was a lawyer and engineer, and he really didn't understand what I was about. I was supposed to go to law school at UCLA - I was admitted - and instead of going to law school, I went on the road with a band.

Watching promos of my dad and stepdad... it's a lot to live up to. I don't want to make them look stupid.

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

No one had ever said anything like that to Evie. Her parents always wanted to advise or instruct or command. They were good people, but they needed the world to bend to them, to fit into their order of things. Evie had never really quite fit, and when she tried, she’d just pop back out, like a doll squeezed into a too-small box.

Parents are never forgiven for not giving just the right response at the appropriate moment. Or, rather, there are particular times in the adolescent's or young adult's life, when a certain response is needed, and this need is not met, and the failure to meet this need is forever remembered, and is never forgiven.

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.

Are anybody's parents typical?

Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?" Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why they wanted us to go away.

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.