Childhood Quote by Mike Flanagan

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

— Tim Burton

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving…

— Erin Gray

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth…

— Djimon Hounsou

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was…

— Mike Mills

Tragedy struck the family when I was 10 days old. My eldest brother was killed in a car accident. He was six. My grandmother…

— Sofia Helin

I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until…

— Sharon Salzberg

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren…

— Angelina Jolie

I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We…

— Larry Harvey

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a…

— T. D. Jakes

My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive.

— Dom DeLuise

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was four. And she was re-diagnosed when I was seven or eight, and again when…

— Rachel Morrison

I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And…

— C. Everett Koop