Childhood Resentment Quotes

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do, it's a dumb idea. Not everything we found fault with was necessarily wrong; we were right, for example, to resent, as kids, being told when to go to bed. We'd be equally wrong, as parents, to let our kids stay up all night. To throw out all the tools of parenting just because our parents used them would be like making yourself speak English without using ten letters of the alphabet; it's hard to do.

I love my parents and they're wonderful people, but they were strict, and I still look for ways to get even. When I got my own apartment for the very first time and they came to stay with me for the weekend, I made them stay in separate bedrooms.

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

I built up so much hatred for my parents, like so much anger for the life they had given me.

I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.