Don Ameche Quotes

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices.

Unfortunately, some parents simply don't love their children. Probably they don't even love themselves. That may be the heart of their problem. Having parents like this is a terrible burden for any child and can shadow him all through life. It can even destroy him.

Moms and dads don't last forever. If you've got unfinished business, we need to face that, and that's not easy. Every child wants to love their mother and their father. Love is the most important thing, and when they feel rejected and unloved, that hole can never be filled by anyone else.

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

The real demon in my life is my father.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

'Like Father, Like Son' gave me the opportunity to show when it is not good with a father.

I have no memory at all of my mother shouting at me or at my sister. But I do have horrible memories of my father and the way he behaved. He was so tough on our mother.

I never wanted my kids to feel about me the way I felt about him.

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

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

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

I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

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.

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they would joke that I had a Roman nose - that it was roamin' all over my face. Teasing was their way of showing love, but then you are young, sometimes you can't tell the difference.

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.