Addict Quote by Melissa Febos

My parents were severe alcoholics. When I was about 17 years old, I finally left home. It wasn't a choice that I made; it…

— Ryan Bingham

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like…

— Dean Koontz

My mother was an alcoholic, in and out of hospital my entire childhood. My father, a doctor, divorced her when I was 14. My…

— Geraldine James

I come from a completely dysfunctional alcoholic family, so we kind of parented ourselves a little bit.

— Sean Hayes

My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in…

— J. R. Moehringer

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 alcoholism was an illness. It was in my DNA, my genes. Both my parents were addicts and I have an addictive personality.

— Tony Adams

My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that,…

— K. Flay

I have a lot of special memories with my parents but my toughest one is, I had, as a teenager, a pretty insatiable appetite…

— Max Lucado

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a…

— Gary Oldman

My mother very bravely put me into rehab two weeks after my father died.

— Finty Williams

My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on a light…

— Josh McDowell