Quotes about "Family & Parenting"

If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents. ”

Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date. ”

I'm a private victim of a peculiar household. ”

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there. ”

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there. ”

I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father. ”

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school. ”

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone. ”

Good families are generally worse than any others. ”

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. ”