Words matter. These are the best Tony Parsons Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A tattoo doesn’t make you look like an individual.
My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn’t prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.
I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.
I’ve been visiting Thailand for more than 20 years but didn’t fall in love with it until I visited Phuket Town in Phuket. The northern part of Phuket is one of the most fascinating places I’ve ever been, and largely unspoilt and unknown.
My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That’s always been my motivation – to take care of the people who rely on me.
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks – oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.
The thing I care about is my weight – I’m as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be – 82kg – and I try to stick to it.
You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there’s a way out.
When you have a kid, money matters.
I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.
When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.
When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym – I chose the gym.
I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.
If someone does something illegal on Twitter – like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone’s intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber – then there has to be some way of censuring them.
I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.
I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.
