RJ Mitte Quotes

When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

I love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived.

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

My stepfather and my mother, I love them to death.

When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him.

I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.

Learning of my father's passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but catapulted my childhood and relationship with family - which had felt like another lifetime - into the present.

The loss of my brother was a huge moment, a life-changer for me.

If you have many children, the first one is always different because you can only have one child who is the first. They have different natures and talents for you to love.

When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't really understand what was happening. My father had stopped playing football, and he was at home all the time.

I never knew a regular childhood, but I was always surrounded by love.

It's not good to lose your dad at any time but at 13 years of age you are just going through puberty and growing up and that was a very crucial time and was a hard time to lose my dad and it had a big effect on me.

I never perceived being adopted as the glass being half-empty.

I know I will never be able to replace my parents, but over the years I have realized that you aren't able to choose your own family.

Unfortunately I lost my father quite early, it changes you. It changes you forever.

Sometimes 'Frances' can be about finding the missing piece, trying to look for biological family as opposed to maybe realizing your family is whoever is around you at the time.

Granted, my childhood wasn't conventional, but it was full of love.

My kids really are my center. They create a beautiful chaos. It's always a nice chaos with them.

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim's warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress. She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the Reaping.

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

if you are a stepparent, rush right out and get yourself a dog. Because it's very nice to have someone in the house that loves you.

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love.