Charice Pempengco Quotes

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

When I was a child, I had wax in my ears. Dad didn't take me to the doctor, he used me as a night light.

My dad is my dad, but he's not there physically anymore. But she lets me call her 'Dad' - that's the last little piece of Dad I've got.

I had a dad you know.

If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts - but it's not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it's any better - but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

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.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

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

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss.

I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.

Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.

My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.

I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8.

English Prime Ministers and American Presidents, it’s amazing how many of them have lost a parent in their childhood.