family absence Quotes

I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin's sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce.

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

To me, the idea that any kind of disaster helps create a nation seems a ridiculous one. There was no family in the house on the land next to me, and there might have been.

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

I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one.

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

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

My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.

Since I was 15, I have not spent a Christmas or a New Year with my family.

I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.

Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost as the next man when I turn the key in the door and go into an empty house that is usually full of kids and dogs.

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

Long ago, when Harry had been left alone while the Dursley's went out to enjoy themselves, the hours of solitude had been a rare treat: Pausing only to sneak something tasty from the fridge, he had rushed upstairs to play on Dudley's computer, or put on the television and flicked through the channels to his heart's content. It gave him an odd empty feeling to remember those times; it was like remembering a younger brother whom he had lost.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

I knew medicine only by its absence - specifically, the absence of a father growing up: one who went to work before dawn and returned in the dark to a plate of reheated dinner.

My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.

I was never really a big presence in the home.

I think the biggest challenge when I'm on the road is being away from my family.

We spend on average 220 days of the year out of the country. It's a long time to be away from your family especially when your children are growing up.

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.

When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.