I had a tough childhood after my father died when I was…

“And this is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died, we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of…

— Sylvia Plath

Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children,…

— Maurice Sendak

I had a tough childhood, yes. I was born in rural Bangladesh to parents who had had no education beyond high school. We moved…

— Zia Haider Rahman

I came from a tough childhood. There was a lot of stuff that I'd actually forgotten or that I'd blocked or hidden away until…

— Jimmy Barnes

I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids…

— Giada De Laurentiis

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

— DeForest Kelley

I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.

— Vonda Shepard

Most of my childhood, my father was hardly around.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

all through my childhood, my father kept from me the knowledge that the daily papers printed daily box scores, allowing me to believe that…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a…

— Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I don't remember much of my childhood. My father passed away when I was six, and sadly, I don't have the fuzziest, foggiest memory…

— Don Willett

I had such a horrible childhood. My father was already married with three children when I was born and my mother didn't know. So…

— Udo Kier

My mother was an alcoholic, in and out of hospital my entire childhood. My father, a doctor, divorced her when I was 14. My…

— Geraldine James

As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood,…

— Augustus Napier

During my childhood, my father, a Southern Baptist minister, and my mother, a teacher, made sure I took educational trips to cities such as…

— Anonymous