Ryan Frazier Quotes

My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.

My father was gone when I was three years old.

I grew up without a father figure.

I didn't have a father figure in the house.

I didn't grow up with my father in my life, and that bred a resentment in me, and it bred a mentality in me that made me very angry.

In my entire life I've spent maybe three weeks with my dad under the same roof.

I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father's Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

I grew up in a town without fathers.

I want to be the dad that my father never was.

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

I was 2 when my parents - actress Connie Stevens and singer Eddie Fisher - divorced. I was too young to experience the pain of their split, but it was rough growing up with a father who wasn't there.

I didn't have a dad coming up. I didn't have someone to be scared of.

My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.

The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.

A lot of people don't even know that about me, I grew up without a father.

My father had a tremendous influence on me, and I think many children who come from broken homes, esp. when they're very early. My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I. It was something in order to empower myself.

I don't really remember much before was eight, but I do remember that my dad brought me to drop me off at my grandmother's house, and he was a very emotional guy, but that was the first time I really saw him cry, cos I knew it killed him to have to give me up, but he knew I needed some family structure. That was the last time I'd see him or talk to him when he was sober for the next 10 years.

I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.