Fatherless Quotes

People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.

My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.

I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being close enough to teach us how to be men, in a world in which men were discouraged from talking about our masculinity and questioning its roots and its mystique, in a world that glorified masculinity and gave us impossibly unachievable myths of masculine heroics, but no domestic models to teach us how to do it.

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?

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

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 used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

I don't know who my dad is.

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. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

I've never made an excuse of not knowing my father, because I've had great people in my life.

A fatherless boy raised in Jim Crow Texas, my dad was a tenacious autodidact, the first in his family to get a college degree.

I had no father. I had no mother after I was 8.

Not having a father helping you grow into manhood and teaching you those things about how to be a man hurts. It hurt my brothers because their fathers weren't involved in their lives.

At five years old, I became the man of the house. When he left, my dad let me know that. It put a certain drive in me that I can't explain.

I would beg ... to add my plea for the Colored Girls of the South:-- that large, bright, promising fatally beautiful class ... so full of promise and possibilities, yet so sure of destruction; often without a father to whom they dare apply the loving term, often without a stronger brother to espouse their cause and defend their honor with his life's blood; in the midst of pitfalls and snares, waylaid by the lower classes of white men, with no shelter, no protection.

I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was.

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.

I never met my father. He left before I was born.

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.

I know lots of friends who grew up without fathers and it actually makes you stronger. You have more to prove, you have to protect yourself.