Elmer Bernstein Quotes

I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.

There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.

They couldn't wait to get me out. My dad found my place, my mom helped me pack, and my brother was making architectural plans for my bedroom. It was just what you do at 18.

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.

When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.

I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

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 have a strong family, and they're not going to baby me, even though I am the baby. They're never gonna do that.

My parents have always had pretty high expectations, but they're very supportive.

The more successful sons and daughters know when to lean on their parents - and when to go their own way. George W. Bush helped run his father's presidential campaigns in 1988 and 1992. But in his winning campaign for governor of Texas, he never mentioned his father's name in any of his campaign commercials.

Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.

My parents have tried not to intrude. They kind of stayed apart from my gymnastics but are very supportive, and that's very helpful as a gymnast to not have your parents say, 'Did you do this today?' and just be very on top of you.

I was out of the house at 16 by my own doing. It forced me to really grow up and take care of myself, and I learned a lot of things that your parents usually teach you, on my own.

It's important to have the support of your family, but when is time to move away? You have to walk with your own legs one day.

We struck out on our own in suburbia with parents who actually helped us get where we needed to go.

My parents have been a great strength to me. They never forced me into anything, and I have the final say.

I think my family does a good job of letting me be a regular teenager, which we all need.

. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.

My parents let me find my way and that's how they supported me the entire way.

I felt like I've needed to ask my parents up until about four years ago about everything. They have helped me tremendously, I came out of college with no debt. Everything they made, they just poured into my education.

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do.