Becoming Quote by Jude Law

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.

— Kenyon Martin

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

I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who…

— Andrew Solomon

Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father.

— Chris Paul

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

— Betty Hill

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I…

— Marilyn Monroe

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids,…

— Jeffrey Donovan

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be…

— Mickey Rourke

I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted…

— Malachy McCourt

I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents.

— David Keith

I was lucky enough to have a loving present father in my family.

— David Duke

I have such a strong sense of family, and I really valued the idea of meeting someone else's family.

— Andi Dorfman