"Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they would joke that I had a Roman nose - that it was roamin' all over my face. Teasing was their way of showing love, but then you are young, sometimes you can't tell the difference."

-- Neil Strauss

#Growing Up Quotes #Differences Quotes #Parent Quotes

“The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believeâ€”I have thought sinceâ€”I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall.”
“And it makes you wonderâ€”how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?”
“When I was a little kid, if somebody said they were thirty-five, I'd say "Oooh, they're going to die soon". But as I get older it doesn't mean a thing. You mustn't ever give in. Never give in to thinking you're old, because you're never old. Your mind, and I tell you this and listen to me carefully, your mind is never, ever old, it's eternally young.”
“Over the past six years I've had many difficulties. But I never lost my passion.”
“It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.”
“Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way.”
“Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.”
“This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it”

You may also like:

Dave Navarro
Guitarist
Marilyn Manson
Musician
Mick Mars
Guitarist
Nikki Sixx
Musician
Roosh V
Tim Ferriss
Author
Tommy Lee
Musician
Vince Neil
Vocalist
Zan Perrion
Writer