Rob Reiner Quotes

Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

I didn't have a good childhood growing up.

I had a bad background just growing up as a child.

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

I had a very difficult upbringing.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.

If we are to save our children then we must become people they will look up to. Children need heroes now more than ever because the poor children of this nation live with monsters every day. Monsters deprive them of heat in the winter, they don't fix their sinks and toilets, they let garbage pile up in their hallways, they kick them out of their homes, they beat them, shoot them, stab them-sometimes to death-they rape their bodies and their minds. Sometimes they lurk under the stairs. They scuttle around in the dark; you hear them in the walls gnawing, squeaking, occasionally biting a little finger.

No matter how much poverty you grow up with, you shouldn't be subjected to violence and abuse.

I had a very rough upbringing.

I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and her running downstairs to go after it. I have no memory before that. I was 4. My father had a lot of girlfriends and my mother had a lot of boyfriends.

I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.