Parental Restriction Quotes

To get to the only club in my area you had to cross a really busy road and my mother forbade me from going there.

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

Growing up, I was restricted at home from playing video games until I reached university.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

My father wasn't allowing me control and the financial freedom that I was asking for. I was 17, about to be 18 within a year, so I started asking more questions because I felt that I needed to start learning about those things.

My parents locked off most areas of expression. The only outlet left to me was the arts.

Every life and every childhood is filled with frustrations; we cannot imagine it otherwise, for even the best mother cannot satisfy all her child's wishes and needs. It is not the suffering caused by frustration, however, that leads to emotional illness, but rather the fact that the child is forbidden by the parents to experience and articulate this suffering, the pain felt at being wounded.

When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'

I get to wear Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen and crazy stuff, but of course, my mom would never in a million years let me buy that. She won't even let me buy my own pair of skis!

I had an Indian Scout motorcycle during high school, but I never could take it to school. My dad would sneak out at night and pull the spark-plug wires.

I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.