Fatherless Childhood Quotes

Growing up without a dad and not having a father figure - I noticed a hole in my life. For the longest time, I would run away from my problems instead of confronting them. I felt empty at one point. Not depressed, but empty.

When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old.

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

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.

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.

Not having my father around has made me a better person.

My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

I love having my son in my life. That's why it's more fathers in the hip-hop community, because they probably went through a fatherless childhood like I did.

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

I didn't grow up with my dad, or around the whole legacy. I was post-Motown, so I'd always hear stories and wonder what was it like.

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.

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father.

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

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.

I didn't grow up around my father. I didn't really grow up around my mother, either. I was raised by a community of people. Spiritually speaking, my father is in Heaven, and that is who I look to for all my answers. And that's why my faith is very strong and why my passion is strong.

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

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.

I grew up without a father figure.

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 finally got the dad I always wanted and then he left. At 18, 19 years old, I was really upset and had to work through that.

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

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