Quotes About Strictness

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

And in real life, I'm actually quite authoritative and strict.

All those who have played with me are aware that I am very strict when it comes to discipline and punctuality.

My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfather; he was the head of the clan. Every morning, we all had to say good morning and kiss his hand. But not me. I jumped on his lap and bit him.

My father - the late Madhavrao Scindia - was clear about the distinction between being 'loving' and 'strict.'

My mom could be pretty strict.

When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who starched and ironed dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I'd come in the house with my hair pulled out, sash off the dress, dirty as heck. I was always getting spanked.

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

We've been agreeing on a strict immigration policy to Norway for a long time. It's supposed to be fair, but it's supposed to be strict.

My dad was always so strict that I was scared to speak to him. Haitian parents are very, 'This is adults' business; this is kids' business.'

I will be even more strict than my dad, because look at me, I turned out fine.

My parents were incredibly strict. My father went through a stage where he'd line us up every Friday and cane our hands if we'd been naughty. And this was mainly to pull my brother into line. My brother is five years older and my sister's eight years older. He would use a little bamboo cane, which my brother saw most of.

Like probably many people of little education who find themselves, like pop stars or film stars, suddenly lauded by the whole world, it is very difficult if you have not had a mother bringing you up who was quite stern and strict.

Parents with a West Indian background tend to be more strict.

My mother was - and is - a very strong woman; very strict. She was a serious mum; a feared parent.

John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.

Dr Maturin is admirably strict,' said Jack. 'He often desires me to have the men flogged, to overcome their torpor and to open their veins both at the same time. A hundred lashes at the gangway is worth a stone of brimstone and treacle, we always say.

Clara Claiborne Park

For extreme diseases extreme strictness of treatment is most efficacious.

Legalism is a subtle danger because no one thinks of himself as a legalist. My own rules seem necessary; other people's rules seem excessively strict.

My mother was incredibly strict, especially when we moved to New York. Compared with most of the American parents, who seemed so relaxed with their children, my mother was virtually a dictator.

She makes me wash, they comb me all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed…. The widder eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she gits up by a bell—everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it.

The rules are very strict...

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.