Sal Khan Quotes

My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you?

I grew up in a town without fathers.

My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

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 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.

My father was gone when I was three years old.

I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.

Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.

I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

My mom, you know, took off when I was about 6. What ended up happening is I ended up being with my grandparents.

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

I grew up mainly with my mother, and I would see my father from time to time. But I didn't have a constant male figure.

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

My parents were divorced when I was 2, so I don't remember much about them being together.

My dad died 11 years ago, I don't see much of my brothers, and I rarely speak to my mum. I don't hold a grudge, but being separated in those early years clearly had an impact. Our relationship didn't develop as it ought to.

My father, he left the family when I was 13, so mum looked after us.

I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.

My parents divorced when I was eight; I never really knew my dad, and my mom raised my older sister and brother and me alone. It was challenging.

My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.

I grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, as the youngest of four children and the only girl. My father died when I was only a year and a half. He was killed in a car accident when he was 26.

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.