Anxious Quote by Rick Riordan

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

— Naveen Andrews

My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as…

— Peter Coyote

It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.

— Toni Morrison

It was very difficult to go farther than that in the arguments with my father because he would always have a story or a…

— Juan Pablo Escobar

I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.

— David Cassidy

Had dad chosen to use violence he would have been immediately annihilated.

— Martin Luther King III

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

— Marilyn Manson

I don't condone any kind of violence. I've been on the receiving end of violence as an adult. I've witnessed it.

— Ulrika Jonsson

I did not watch many of my father's films because he used to do action movies. So when anyone punched my dad I used…

— Athiya Shetty

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

My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away,…

— Mike Weir