Children Of Overbearing Parents Quotes & Sayings

I cried for what should have been. — Lawrence Schimel

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. — Angela Carter

The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere. — Pope Pius XII

These are often the children of overbearing narcissistic parents who cannot tolerate the teenager's growing need for separateness and threaten the child with psychological or actual abandonment as a punishment for exercising independence. The child considers the risks and decides prematurely to do what is expected, becoming a doctor. . .without first engaging in a journey of self-discovery. When the parents' or culture's roles and values are adopted wholesale and without examination, the process of establishing a personal identity is short-circuited. Some of these individuals rework this struggle more successfully later in life, while others are never free from the narcissistic web and only feel good when they are pleasing someone other than themselves. — Sandy Hotchkiss

It is technology. They all changed to a harder golf ball, so they gave up spinning on the greens. They all changed to longer drivers, bigger heads with hotter faces and lighter shafts. The problem is, the harder you hit it, the more control you lose. — Tiger Woods

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life. — Kathy Griffin

Knowledge is key, without knowledge, leadership, and action plans that fit the actual challenges, all of our businesses and organizations are lost. By providing training, offering moments to come together and exchange best practices all of us can stay on top of our field. — Inge Ignatia De Waard

We all want our genetic information. Why would you not want genetic information? — Anne Wojcicki

Whether it is overbearing parents, rebellious children, or an unfaithful spouse, God has the ability to transform our brokenness and use it to further his purposes. He also has a habit of using our dysfunction to deepen our devotion to him. — Michael Whitworth

I wanted to come close to fierce wild things. They seemed prehistoric, rare and sacred. — Aspen Matis

The world owes an ecological debt to the African continent. — Francois Hollande

Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh the danger, it is cowardice to neglect it; if the danger exceed the glory, it is rashness to attempt it; if the balances stand poised, let thy own genius cast them. — Francis Quarles

Social cohesion is more efficient than coercion. — Patrick McCarty

Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not. — Ville Valo

I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win. — Tom Brady

Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation ... — Abraham Lincoln