Alice Miller Quotes

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

Alice Miller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: psychologist
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: January 12, 1923 - April 14, 2010

Topics

CharacterChildrenParentsWhyFact

Your child is never not your child. You can be 90 and your mother 120, but your mother is still worried about you.

Joan Rivers

MotherChildYouNeverYour Child

Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.

John Fahey

GoodDeathMeThoughtBlindSay

I'm from Harlem, born and raised there.

Mekhi Phifer

BornHarlemRaised

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

Jules Shear

PeopleHouseGoKnowWriteStay

What I can control is how I'll perform when I got to a team.

Jordan Rodgers

TeamControlI CanGotHowPerform

I've never been a 16-year-old girl.

Chris Lilley

GirlNeverBeen

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

FamilyChildDestroyedHad

Gojira is my favorite band of all time; they're lovely, I've seen them live two times. I also love Mastodon and the Refused as well.

Aurora

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I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

Serj Tankian

MusicGreatArtAmazingMusicians

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

Scott McClellan

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I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I'm very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want.

Scott Rudin

WorkSeriousWantLuckyMoreGet

President Obama became our first African American president, and for me, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.

Kenny Leon

DreamsMeAmericanPresidentFirst

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