Johnny Cash Quotes

Parenting is something that I got early, because when you grow up without a father being there, and you see a single mother struggle to feed the kids, you do not want to put your own blood through that.

Many feel sorry for a person like David Platt. He was abandoned by his father, his mother wanted to abort him and his stepdad wanted him dead.

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

Any kid who grew up with an alcoholic parent will tell you how nauseating it feels never to know what it will be like when you come home.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love.

I had a very difficult upbringing.

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

I came from a broken family.

I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother had pretty much single-handedly brought us up.

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

My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

I had a great deal of trouble focusing. My two - I had three children, and the two that survived - boys - were very badly injured. I did my job. I didn't miss the votes. I showed up. But I just could hardly wait to get home.

I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.

For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak tea. The limeade was very interesting. It didn't taste anything like limes. It tasted bright green and vaguely chemical. Coraline liked it enormously. She wished they had it at home. "How are your dear mother and father?" asked Miss Spink. "Missing," said Coraline. "I haven't seen either of them since yesterday. I'm on my own. I think I've probably become a single child family.

Nobody loves you when you're down and out.

You don’t care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.