Victor Mitchell Quotes

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.

My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people's houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music.

My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary.

My father was gone when I was three years old.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

My mom, you know, took off when I was about 6. What ended up happening is I ended up being with my grandparents.

My parents are separated. My father left when I was six years old.

I promised my dad that I'd take care of my mom and sister, and that's exactly what I'm going to do.

My father, he left the family when I was 13, so mum looked after us.

When I was four or five, I had an older brother who got paralyzed from the neck down in junior high school. Some kid did a wrestling fall on him and hit his spine. We had to take care of him. I went from being the baby to not really being the baby anymore.

I was going blind, and I was in a wheelchair. I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life living with my parents.

So many times we take things like eyesight for granted cause it's so natural. We wake up and we see, we wake up and we walk. It's just so natural for us. So, for me not to be able to see for 2-3 days straight, it was hell.

My father left me when I was 6. My mother tried to take care of all of us on public assistance.

It's so crazy: my mom and dad divorced when I was 11, and my fondest memories are in the Philippines and being raised by my mom. It's such a big part of my life.

I always had a thing - just take care of family.

My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

You don't really know what your children are made of until the mommy engine of the family shuts down, and they are forced to step up and become the care-takers.

I was barely 17 when our father decided to part ways with my mother.

My dad left home when I was super young, so it was my mum bringing me and my brother up.

I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He broke his back and was disabled, and the first memory I have of him is in the hospital. My mother was a working mother - she had two jobs. Everybody in the house had to help out.

When my parents separated, I became the breadwinner of the family.

My parents separated when I was two, and then my father passed away, so I never really knew that side of the family.

I need to take care of my mom and making sure she's financially OK. She's done so much for me, it's the least thing I can do.

My mum and dad split up when I was five years old, and that was quite upsetting. But ever since then, I've been very hard.