“Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that.” KnowsWantTwoKidsStreetsDrugAlcoholTennisTwo DaysTowelsRacketQuotingBeating Yourself Author:Johnny Depp
“My mum did encourage me, perhaps most of all by never discouraging me from anything I wanted to do. If you tell kids not to, they're going to do it in the end anyway. I'd finished all that staying-out-all-night-drinking bit when everybody else came to it. Probably why I don't like alcohol today. I had it all by the age of 10.” IfsEndsKidsAgeTodayWantedNightBitsDrinkingFinishedAlcoholStayingMumAll NightDiscouraging Author:George Harrison
“When I gave up dope and alcohol, my immediate feeling was 'I've saved my life, but there'll be a price because I'll have nothing that buzzes me any more'. But I enjoyed my kids. My wife loved me and I loved her. And eventually the writing came back and I discovered that the writing was enough. Stupid thing is that probably it always had been.” WritingEnoughFeelingsKidsWifeStupidMy WifeAlcoholSavedEnjoyedGave UpDopeStupid Things Author:Stephen King
“Our teenage "druggies" are habituated to drugs rather than addicted. While beer and other alcoholic beverages are preferred drugs, kids have simply not used alcohol long enough to become addicted. The other drug of preference - marijuana - is not addictive.” LongEnoughKidsUsedDrugAlcoholBeerMarijuanaTeenagePreferenceAlcoholicsBeveragesDruggies Author:Virgil Miller Newton