Dave Barry Quotes

I think it's the human condition to be frequently embarrassed by your parents.

Nobody at fifteen wants anybody to see how goofy their parents are.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.

My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

My films are about embarrassment.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.

When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.

I don't really experience much embarrassment.

Whatever your age, parents generally embarrass their children. I think that's a role we have to play.

I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.

I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.

I would like to be able to disappear whenever I do something dorky.

Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

I've spent my life being embarrassed.

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

Every day, I have a most embarrassing moment.

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.