Absent Parent Quotes

Dad was never a Mr. Mum-type of person who'd stay at home. It was a big thing when he was home - he was a circus.

My relationship with my first child was nonexistent. I was broke and I was a new rapper whose career was spiraling downward.

I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.

I went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect - that was my dream. I was like, yeah I graduated from school, but it's not like you showed up for that. But all he was worried about is whether or not I wanted money from him.

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

I've wanted to be a parent for a really long time, and I'm going to make sure I'm doing everything I can to be present in her life, to be her mother. I don't want to be absent from her life.

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

I was a solo parent. Not a single parent as far as I was concerned. Single parent implies that the other parent is around somewhere.

I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.

My father left me when I was 6. My mother tried to take care of all of us on public assistance.

My mom and I weren't that close when I was growing up because she was gone seven days of the week; she was always in church.

Cyborg was the first superhero that I've ever seen whose parent was around but just was not there for him emotionally, mentally. I related to that in a big way because, growing up, it was my mother and grandmother that raised me and my brother and sisters. I'm the second youngest of five; my father was never in the picture.

My father wasn't there the majority of the time. My father, someone who I always honored and looked up to, had been in the military; he had been to war. I would hear stories about different experiences he went through, but as I got older, my father moved away.

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.

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.

I have it all because my children did not whine and cry when I was not there.

I didn't meet my father until I was in the fourth grade.

I don't want to get too detailed and personal, but my parents got divorced when I was about nine. A lot of that had to do with my dad being on the road and that disconnect.

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.

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

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.