Parental Opposition Quotes

Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not Communists.

If, later on, my daughter wants to be in a girl group, then I think I am going to oppose.

My father, a musician who worked with All India Radio, is no more. My mother had a government job at BSNL and was always opposed to my career in acting. She had seen the life my father had lived and did not like it.

My father was so against me becoming an actor.

When the time came to say, "Mom, I want to do this as a job," it was brutal. She was really against it. There were screaming matches. Some people are shut down by that and get defeated by it, and other people are empowered by the negativity. My father kind of encouraged me through that.

Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it.

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

I didn't have any singing background. Against the wishes of my parents, I got into making music.

My parents disagreed sharply with me over the decision to leave school.

The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader, and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

Initially, my father opposed the idea of joining films and did not want me to move out, but now I'm closest to him and have his full support.

An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!

My one complaint with my father as a parent is that, not only was he not a golfer, but also he was sort of opposed to golf. I was a country club kid growing up. I should have played golf, but my father thought golf was a sport for old men.

I was supposed to go to Northwestern and become a dental hygienist, get married, have babies. My father was very against me being in show business. Usually in Chinese culture, education is the most highly valued.

Frankly my parents didn't like him. They objected to the things he stood for. Besides, daddy and Hef are the same age.