David Dinkins Quotes

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.

My parents are separated. My father left when I was six years old.

Nick spent his first years on walks in his stroller and Snugli, playing in Berkeley parks and baby gyms and visiting zoos and aquariums. His mother and I divorced when he was 4. No child benefits from the bitterness and savagery of a divorce like ours.

I was very young when my parents separated, and later, my mother remarried.

I was six when my parents divorced, and that was tough for me.

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

I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.

My parents separated when I was younger.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

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

My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.

I can distinctly remember being the only boy in my class whose parents had separated.

I was 2 when my parents - actress Connie Stevens and singer Eddie Fisher - divorced. I was too young to experience the pain of their split, but it was rough growing up with a father who wasn't there.

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.

And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did.

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

My first recollection of performing was shortly after my parents split up, so the logical conclusion to draw is that that affected me.

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

My mum and dad split up when I was five years old, and that was quite upsetting. But ever since then, I've been very hard.

My parents split before my fifth birthday, and I moved with Mom and my three siblings to her native Oahu.

It does hurt that your parents are not together and they are fighting. Looking back, I grew up a little quicker than I would have normally. I spent half the week with my mom and half with my dad.

My father and mother separated when I was two months old.