John Lennon Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

  John Lennon

  Children, Responsibility, Parenting

• I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.

  John Lennon

  Girl, Dirty, Boys

• I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment.

  John Lennon

  Religious, Pain, Heart

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.

  John Lennon

  Growing Up, Pain, Parent

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

  John Lennon

  Nice, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of Shaking for my money. Or maybe I'm like our parents: that's my period and I dig it and I'll never leave it.

  John Lennon

  Rocks, Parent, Groups

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