Father Quote by Ethel Waters

My mother ran away from my father after 16 years of being married to him. She was 16 when she hooked up with him.…

— Malik Yoba

To see your mother beaten by your father is something you never forget. It's horrific. When my dad was like that, I hated him,…

— Coleen Nolan

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

— Quentin Crisp

I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was…

— Jim Goad

I had a very difficult father. I lived in a war zone. My parents were very unhappy, and I lived through my mother's pain.…

— Penny Junor

Before my mother died, she made me promise to do everything that could be done to make sure my father was not left alone…

— Farrah Fawcett

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

— Anonymous

My father kicked me out of the house by the time I was 16.

— Malik Yoba

My father just believed in my mother's ability to do anything.

— Yance Ford

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

— Louise Bourgeois

I can say, out of my whole life, my dad left the situation at an early age for me; he left. But my mum…

— Kendra Wilkinson

It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a 'borrowed' key and…

— H. Robert Horvitz