Age Quote by Larry Elder

A fatherless boy raised in Jim Crow Texas, my dad was a tenacious autodidact, the first in his family to get a college degree.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only…

— Jonny Bairstow

I was raised by my mother. My father died when I was 15. He was just 41.

— Toto Wolff

When my father died, I was nine or 10, and my mother was like a dad and a mom to me. She raised me…

— Sonita Alizadeh

My parents, like others of "The Greatest Generation" who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the best possible…

— Dan Millman

My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary…

— Chiang Kai-shek

My dad was just a little trailer trash white dude that worked his tail off, didn't have a dad. He started working at 14,…

— Julian Edelman

At 15 [my father] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, "I'm out of here! What are you doing to me?" He…

— Paul Laffoley

Growing up poor here in North Carolina, our family saw many struggles... my father was an alcoholic.

— Mark Robinson

My mom grew up without a father because he died in the Korean War. And my grandmother, her life was completely upended because of…

— Lee Isaac Chung

Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

My father left me when I was 6. My mother tried to take care of all of us on public assistance.

— Ghostface Killah