David Alan Grier Quotes

A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

When you grow up, you don't realize that your parents are any different than anybody else's. And their behavior - you have nothing to compare it to. So that is what normal is, even if it's abnormal.

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.

Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

I think Dad didn't really treat us like children; he treated us more like little adults. We were good kids.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.

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.

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

'Finding Nemo' has spawned so many sort of emotions over the years. I don't even know that you could really understand exactly what parents and kids are seeing in it, but they can see a lot of different stuff.

After you've watched your dad beat the crap out of Charlie King or some other bad guy in about forty movies, you pretty much always said, 'Yes, sir,' and meant it.

I'm way more influenced by my children than I was by my parents.

Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'

The way I was parented did affect my parenting - probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.

I was an only child, and I spent a lot of time alone. My dad was an only child, too, so we didn't have a big family, and I was really close with both of my parents. Like any kid, I thought I knew more than they did.