Boy Quote by Marilyn Manson

Violence was very much a part of my mother's upbringing - a little less so with my father's, but my father was an angry…

— Rodney Crowell

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

My dad was violent. Things were getting really bad and if I'd stayed, I might not be here now.

— Naveen Andrews

My father was very confrontational and an intellectual bully. My mom was a peacemaker who wanted to make everyone comfortable.

— Rick Owens

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

— S. E. Hinton

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

— Doris Lessing

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere…

— Joyce Meyer

In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school.…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I didn't grow up with my father in my life, and that bred a resentment in me, and it bred a mentality in me…

— Rashad Evans

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

— Joyce Meyer

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult…

— Dani Shapiro

My dad was one of those dads that would make me stop crying by threatening to beat me.

— Felipe Esparza