Children Quote by Andy Garcia

My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Freedom was taken away from my family until we landed in America and it was given back to us.

— Andy Garcia

When I was somewhere between child and adult, my father left us. My first family broke apart, but this liberated me to create a…

— Rumaan Alam

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to…

— Jim Henson

My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into…

— Joseph Brodsky

Everything was an escape for me when I was younger. I had a tumultuous home life thanks to the unsavoury characters my mom would…

— Rosa Salazar

I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of…

— Anonymous

Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades of exile…

— Andre Aciman

I am not in exile.

— Chen Guangcheng

My father disowned me and my mother left me. It was difficult but I took Lord Ganesha's and Jesus's name and could pass through…

— Rakhi Sawant

When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.

— Louise Bourgeois