Henry Rollins Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

  Henry Rollins

  Inspirational, Life, Friends

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.283, Villard

• I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.

  Henry Rollins

  Parent

  "Henry Rollins attacks Robin Williams's decision to take his own life" by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2014.

• If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Men, Car

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

  Henry Rollins

  Years, Parent, Gestures

• I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better

  Henry Rollins

  People, Parent, Treats

• I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Past, Parent

• Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

  Henry Rollins

  Kids, Support, Parent

• As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

  Henry Rollins

  Children, Class, Parent

• Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Parent, Independence

  Henry Rollins (1996). “Eye Scream”, 2 13 61

• If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

  Henry Rollins

  Parent, Rebel, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I was never told to "Get up, get out there, get a job." It was never a thing either parent ever said I had to do. It was what I wanted to do. I think I was very interested in being away from them as much as possible. Employment was great for that.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, Thinking, Parent

• I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

  Henry Rollins

  Teacher, Responsibility, Thinking

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