Alcoholic Father Quotes

#1. Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

Elton John

#2. Impatience is really a condition for people with control issues; people become impatient, and angry, when they find themselves in any situation beyond their control.

Zane

#3. I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was.

George Carlin

#4. Goddamn it; speak your mind whether the truth will hurt, feel deeply regardless of the pain you fear, do accordingly in seek of your dreams whilst including the uphill struggles ... Life isn't a a fairytale but it is if you make it one.

Nikki Rowe

#5. Short is my date, but deathless my renown.

Homer

#6. An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

Sonia Sotomayor

#7. I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

Josh McDowell

#8. I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

Malachy McCourt

#9. The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#10. 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 him.

Dean Koontz

#11. My whole life, this is how I've defined the paranormal: can't understand it, can't explain it, can't deny it.

Jodi Picoult

#12. If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string

Benny Bellamacina

#13. Looking at health through a gender lens is the first step to a more helpful and personalized approach to healing.

Jed Diamond

#14. His mother had survived decades of marriage to his angry, disappointed, alcoholic father by developing what she called a "forgettery" instead of a memory. She woke up every day and forgot the day before.

Salman Rushdie

#15. I think network television is really hard because it has to sail right away. HBO's so much more nurturing, patient. They think it takes a while for a show to kind of congeal and figure out what its strong spots are.

Amanda Peet

#16. I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.

Minka Kelly

#17. Be a companion with Christ, and he will draw near unto you and be your best friend. There is no better friend than Christ.

William R. Bradford

#18. Carl constantly told horror stories of cursing and beatings from his father and the twenty-four-hour blackout screaming of his alcoholic, pill-popping mother. He used his trauma like a caution sign for what he could do if I didn't silence my backtalk.

Maggie Young

#19. You only live when you truly get lost in love.

Debasish Mridha

#20. After being in a studio, working on games stuff, I'm like, 'Oh my God, I wish I could just sit in my room for a week and listen to music and draw by myself.'

Joe Madureira

#21. My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.

Jim Hamilton

#22. Normal people hadn't been molested or reared by a clinically psychotic mother, an alcoholic father, or a perversely mad psychiatrist who wore a Santa hat and performed toilet bowl readings. These were normal people, and I lived among them now. I thought, This must be what I want.

Augusten Burroughs

#23. Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one ... I can well believe it.

Dodie Smith

#24. Love is being in Us...!

Sushil Singh