Christie Hefner Quotes

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

My brother and I had a lot of freedom growing up, and thankfully, we both turned out OK.

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

Men are what their mothers made them.

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling out how to be part of my children's lives rather than shoehorning them into mine. But there's a risk that I'll overcompensate, of course.

I think my parents undoubtedly influenced me on some level.

I was the happiest kid ever, but I did choose to live around adults and today, now that I have a kid, I don't know if I would let him do it.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

I probably took on the father role, as children will. I know I did.

If my parents didn't raise me in the way that they did, I wouldn't be in the position I am now. They raised me very independent and taught me you can do anything you want to. I have an average-sized brother and an average-sized sister, and I had to do everything they had to.

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

No one can beat Momma. She made me the person I am today - the way I think and act and move and talk and speak. It's all because of her.

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

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

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.