Quotes about "Family & Parenting"

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. ”

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over. ”

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface. ”

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. ”

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now? ”

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. ”

You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family. ”

You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to. ”

My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot of great folk musicians of the time, like Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Leadbelly. They were all people we knew. ”

You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque. ”