Ice T Quotes

My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri.

I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up to two wonderful people, my foster parents.

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

My mother left behind three daughters when she went to America and started a new life. I certainly felt abandoned when my father died of a brain tumour; I felt he had abandoned me to this terrible, volatile mother and I had no protection.

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until that point I'd lived in five different family configurations. Each one ended or changed through a death or some terrible loss.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.

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

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

I had to deal with death at a really young age.

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through my childhood and now my adulthood; I lost my brother at a young age. He got hit by a car right in front of me. I had to be strong for my mom.

When I was young I lost everything.

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

I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.

I was 22 when my mother died; my baby sister was 12. We had nothing. We had each other, but we had nothing.

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.

Anyone dying is not easy, but certainly not a mother. Me and my brother, we stuck together. The foster families were good to me, and then my nanny took me in.