Father Quote by Sandra Cisneros

When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a…

— Joe Torre

I was terrified to be my true self because I felt that it wasn't enough. But I allowed myself to break down those walls.

— Hannah Brown

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by…

— Osamu Dazai

Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.

— Mitski

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.

— Chloe Sevigny

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I…

— Cheryl Strayed

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed…

— Criss Angel

When I look back, there was obviously the arch of my creativity and when I was young, I used to go to open homes…

— Jeremiah Brent

My dad builds houses, and, for the earlier portion of my life anyway, we moved around quite a bit. It took us to some…

— John Gourley

I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on…

— John Searles

I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

— Flea

When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months.…

— Peter Doig