Parents Split Quotes

#1. My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

Ani DiFranco

#2. I was really sorry to hear that her parents split up. But she said it wasn't that bad. She actually said it happened a lot. She said the good thing was they had plenty of extra body parts around the house to put them back together.

Herobrine Books

#3. I was born in Evanston, about three blocks away from the Chicago border. My mother, at the time, was finishing her Ph.D. in African History at Northwestern University. Soon after my birth, my parents split, and my father moved to Wicker Park, which is on the north side of the city.

Rashid Johnson

#4. My parents split up when I was five, and that changed my life as well. I wasn't used to seeing them away from each other. I had to get used to seeing my dad without my mom. Those things affected the music that I make.

Joey Badass

#5. Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#6. My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.

Garcelle Beauvais

#7. My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.

Natasha Lyonne

#8. I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.

Holliday Grainger

#9. My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.

Vinnie Jones

#10. I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.

Minnie Driver

#11. When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.

Jennifer Aniston

#12. I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But I come from a time when you just put up with that, you got on with things rather than sitting moaning about them.

Len Goodman

#13. My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.

Mariella Frostrup

#14. My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

Justin Townes Earle

#15. This is for those of you who have made mistakes, and who are brave enough to correct them, and wise enough to learn from them.

P.C. Cast

#16. My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.

Robert Webb

#17. Having seen you naked, I should demand that the only thing you wear in my presence from now on are these earrings. Anything else is superfluous.

Sylvain Reynard

#18. To be a god
First I must be a god-maker:
We are what we create.

James Oppenheim

#19. My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.

Gail Porter

#20. Sometimes you just gotta trust that your secret's been kept long enough.

Anne Cameron

#21. I get on all right with my parents. But I don't see them very much. They split up when I was eight. I stayed with my mum, but I felt it was a bit soft with her. I could do whatever I liked, and I wasn't getting nowhere, so I went to stay with my dad.

Joe Strummer

#22. But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.

Robert Rauschenberg

#23. Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need.

Chloe Thurlow

#24. We are all part of divinity. All mankind are divine.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done

Chad Michael Murray

#26. Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.

Emily Oster

#27. The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

Montesquieu

#28. More important than starting well in our walk with God is to finish well.

Victor Manuel Rivera

#29. A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream, which meant it as now an hour-and-a-half commute via the 7:06 Hicksville to Penn Station every morning. (Dark City Lights)

Jonathan Santlofer

#30. Humans are forever discontent - always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#31. I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

Abbie Cornish

#32. My parents were very young when they had me. They were still growing up and learning themselves. They did the best they could, but my mom and dad split up when I was little ... So that kind of made me stronger.

Justin Bieber

#33. Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us.

Goran Ivanisevic

#34. You have blotted out the past for me, you know, far more effectively than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo. But for you I should have left long ago, gone to Italy, and Greece, and further still perhaps. You have spared me all those wanderings.

Daphne Du Maurier

#35. There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.

Rahm Emanuel