Jackie Robinson Quotes

I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have.

All too often, I'm sorry to say, I relegated my family to the cracks and margins.

I'm pretty selfish, I think. I'm probably a terrible dad. I don't do too much with my kids. Obviously I love them and everything, but I just stay here in the studio all day.

One of my major regrets was that period in my life where I wasn't present in my kids' life. I was in another world.

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on …. I’m talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange jumpsuit. Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he was 12 … and where is his father, and why don’t you know where he is?

I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many times... my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.

I wore myself out physically and mentally over my career, and I couldn't be there for my daughters in ways I should have been.

My kids suffered because I wasn't home enough.

My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it's for our family, but it almost never is. It's about us. It's just some of us can pretend better than others.

My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.

I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we'd both outgrown the only relationship we could have had to each other. I was over 30 by the time I met him again and no longer needed a father.

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41.

When you're in a single-parent home, they try to give you a good foundation, but by the time you're 4 or 5 years old, from that point on you're pretty much on your own.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

The thing about living without a father if he's always gone is that it takes a long time to realize he isn't coming home.

The whole time I was on 'Grey's,' I'm still reconciling myself to my 11-year-old son, because he never saw me during that time. By the time he got up, he'd see a dent in his pillow, but by the time I got home, he was already asleep. So for three years, he had a daddy that he never saw because I had to work.

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it.