We had a happy childhood, our parents were strict but…

My parents were strict but loving.

— Ann Dowd

Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.

— Kate Winslet

The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving.

— Sheldon Glueck

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's…

— Crystal Bowersox

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's…

— Crystal Bowersox

I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's…

— Bette Midler

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

— Ryan Murphy

I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime.…

— Ken Dodd

whereas in childhood ... it was the parents' judgement that mattered to the child, later on the situation becomes reversed: it is then that…

— Iris Origo

I did not have an affectionate childhood, neither of my parents were expressive in that way.

— Ulrika Jonsson

Social immobility is driven by family background, instability in childhood and often by parents who don't know how to give children the right start…

— Chris Grayling

I had a wonderful childhood. My parents were a dream to me.

— Shannen Doherty

I felt so miserable for my whole childhood. All my parents could do was try their best.

— Chappell Roan

Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to be the…

— Jenny Mollen

What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.

— Rodney Dangerfield