Donald Miller Quotes

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

I grew up without a father figure.

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

My father had a tremendous influence on me, and I think many children who come from broken homes, esp. when they're very early. My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I. It was something in order to empower myself.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.

It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.

My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed to be a father, he was.

There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.

When you grow up a fatherless son, in many ways you have to raise yourself. No one tells you what looks good on you, how to carry yourself, or provides the approval. Without a father, you grow up never knowing what you didn't have. There is no intimate model of who you want to become, so it's as if you're always guessing.

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.

I didn't have a dad around to pick me up when I fell, throw the ball to me outside. I always wonder how it would be if I did have a dad there.

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 brother and sister and I were latchkey kids, with a singer mother and no relationship with our father, and being in a firm is often about filling a void at home. For me, it was like having 50 big brothers.

It's sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black hole or an absence.

Fatherhood is something that is personal to me because I didn't grow up around my father.

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.

As a kid, watching your dad leave, that's pretty powerful.

Your father leaving your family, that's your bedrock for all your future relationships and that's your security when you're a kid.