Stephen Rodrick Quotes

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

My dad had been very absent, even when he was there. Then he left the family and moved away. Our relationship, it feels to me, ended when I was 13.

I know there are a lot of kids who aren't lucky enough to have a father figure in their lives. That's a really tough obstacle to overcome.

I had a father who was active, present. There are people out there that never knew their fathers, didn't have their father's support. If I were to complain, that would be real sad. How dare I?

I grew up without a father figure.

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men.

Unfortunately, I never knew my father and when I did, it was very briefly.

I didn't have a father figure in the house.

If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

I didn't have a dad coming up. I didn't have someone to be scared of.

I never knew my father, which explains the Clint thing. He called himself Daddy... I loved it then, because it filled a great void.

I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person.

Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world.

I think in today's society we are dealing with an epidemic of fatherless homes. We're turning everywhere else for people to be fathered.

I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.

'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.

I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family.