Angela Featherstone Quotes

I felt so alone as a boy because no one wanted to be friends with me.

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.

I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone.

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

Anyone dying is not easy, but certainly not a mother. Me and my brother, we stuck together. The foster families were good to me, and then my nanny took me in.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

There are far too many children in America in need of a loving home who are shuttled between temporary homes and group shelters that fail to provide the stable, nurturing environment all children deserve.

Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.

I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

I was a very sad little girl.

I was alone more than most kids.

We leave people alone when they need us most.

I didn't really have many friends as a child.