Julie Christie Quotes

There's never been a parent in my life.

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.

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

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.

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

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

My wife gone, my mum gone, ostracised by my village. I was left all alone in life.

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.

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

My mother never took my hand.

I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.

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

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

'Tusk Tusk' is about a family of kids who are alone, the audience don't know why.

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.

Growing up without my parents by my side is a weight I still carry today.

Chris' absence is very much felt. There's just a huge void in our home life.

My father passed away when I was pretty young. I was 7 years old, and I think when that happens, there are a variety of ways that a young person can react to that loss. I think, for me, it kind of put me in a perpetual state of feeling like something is wrong with me and like I didn't belong, or everybody else had things that I didn't have.

I felt abandoned at a young age. That's where most of my anger came from, I guess.

My mother, Carole Hedges, was my world until she walked out of our house when I was 7. Actually, she didn't walk out. Alcohol walked her out.