Frank Abagnale Quotes

So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.

My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.

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

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

I was six when my parents divorced, and that was tough for me.

My parents separated when I was younger.

I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

When your parents divorce, it makes you grow up fast. I'd urge parents to strongly consider working things out. I'd work things out and I'd definitely stay put.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.

My sister ran away for four years; she was living on the streets. I didn't know where she was, and then I was getting in trouble.

Divorce is something I think that children feel particularly hard and what's sad about a lot of divorces, and certainly about my divorce, is that absent fathers who really want to play a part in their children's lives but don't live there, they have a pretty tough time.

After I came out to my mother at 17, I ran away from home and lived with a friend. We come from a highly religious family, and she could not accept it. It was devastating, and I was depressed.

My parents divorced when I was 12, and leading up to that it was... not without turbulence.

What do you mean? Grace Brisbane, you do not mean that you're not going back home again. Tell me that this was just because you were momentarily angry at them for grounding you. Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night. But don't tell me you think it's forever!

The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.

Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it.

I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.

I spent my 18th birthday in jail. Charges were dropped as long as I promised never to return to the state of Kansas. My parents took me home to Louisiana. I lasted there a week. Then I ran away.

When I had my daughter and split up with her father six months later, I had a really hard time.

Mom used to say I didn't run away from home my destiny just caught up with me at an early age.

I ask you, if a mad man came in and abducted your child and I said to you I can bring your child homedoes it matter how I bring them home?

Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore.