Brett Kavanaugh Quotes

I was fortunate that I was an only child. I had two parents who I really cared about, and they cared about me, so I got off to a good start.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.

Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.

A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.

I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

I was born in Chicago in 1927, the only child of Morris and Mildred Markowitz, who owned a small grocery store. We lived in a nice apartment, always had enough to eat, and I had my own room. I never was aware of the Great Depression.

My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

My parents did not have any interest in music.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

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.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.