Kate Garraway Quotes

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

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

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.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

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

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

As children, we develop some scorn for our parents and their imperfections.

My kids can't watch ('Howard the Duck'). By the time I get in bed with the duck, they are, like, 'Turn it off, mom. You in bed with a duck is just pretty much a deal breaker.'

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

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who have little stake in pulling away from their grandparents, tend to describe that relationship as less rose-colored than do Gram and Gramps.

I always, always liked children... I was very afraid of them before. Because I never really grew up, I mean, with a lot of little kids around. Even though I am from a kind of Italian family, I never really grew up with a lot of little kids around.

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

One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.

It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.