Brett Ratner Quotes

I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.

I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

When my dad was still playing, he was away for five years on and off, so it just used to be me and my mum at home until my little brother came along when I was five.

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.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.

It is tough that a lot of kids have single-family homes.

From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.'

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

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

I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

I grew up in a town without fathers.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.