Quotes About Having Strict Parents

#1. My mother was incredibly strict, especially when we moved to New York. Compared with most of the American parents, who seemed so relaxed with their children, my mother was virtually a dictator.

Mark Ronson

#2. I don't think it really matters whether parents are strict or lenient, as long as they're consistent. Kids can live with more or less any set of rules so long as they know what they are. It's arbitrary tyranny that gets them mixed up.

Ken Follett

#3. I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.

Wyclef Jean

#4. My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

Katy Perry

#5. Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

Grant Hill

#6. My parents were always very strict, and they gave me the right beliefs in how to treat people. It was very strict and all about morals - I try to pass that on to my own children.

David Beckham

#7. My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.

Ty Segall

#8. Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

Caroline Corr

#9. My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn't be home until a certain hour.

Emo Philips

#10. I became a minister of the Eucharist when I was 17. My parents aren't very strict Catholics, but for some reason I decided this is what I want to do, and I have kept it up.

Sarah Bolger

#11. My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taught me commitment to work hard.

Billy Casper

#12. I was raised by extremely strict - but also extremely loving - Chinese immigrant parents, and I had the most wonderful childhood! I remember laughing constantly with my parents - my dad is a real character and very funny. I certainly did wish they allowed to me do more things!

Amy Chua

#13. Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

Jackie Evancho

#14. I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents.

Cody Linley

#15. I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.

Tate Donovan

#16. My parents were very, very, very strict.

Elizabeth Strout

#17. Strict parents create sneaky kids.

Bryant A. Loney

#18. My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

Brigitte Bardot

#19. My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

Questlove

#20. My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

John Leguizamo

#21. My house was very strange. I didn't do things other kids did because my parents were very strict - I stayed at home, quiet in my room.

Alessia Cara

#22. My parents are really quite strict, so I have to be home at a certain time - even now, at the age of 25.

Tena Desae

#23. I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

Agnes Obel

#24. 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.

Elayne Boosler

#25. There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

Ricardo Montalban

#26. Children do best when parents are neither overly strict nor overly permissive, providing firm structure but also allowing for dialogue, respectful conflict, and compromise.

Lundy Bancroft

#27. I was very strict on that point. No devouring classmates." Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Other parents warn their kids not to talk to strangers. I had to warn mine not to eat them.

Kelley Armstrong

#28. I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

Dan O'Brien

#29. Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.

Bill Walton

#30. I grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, in New York. My parents were very religious churchgoing people. They were very strict. I was never really allowed to indulge in anything vain. Modesty always. I have three brothers and two sisters, so everything was on a budget.

Wynter Gordon

#31. Her mother gave her strict instructions to follow the school phone policy and not use it until after the final bell rings. If she violates the rules and the phone is taken away, she won't get any sympathy from her parents.

Tara Ellis

#32. My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.

Laura Mvula