Quotes About An Alcoholic Father

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.

Harold Taylor

#4. 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

#5. It was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, of insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that over-rich nectar and now it was sleeping the evil out of itself.

Ray Bradbury

#6. Do not feel trapped by the facts of your history. Your history is not some set of sacred facts. History is an interpretation, and your history is yours to interpret. To know the history and then reinterpret it gives you additional depth.

Harriet Rubin

#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. 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

#10. Love that is enough. Love that is big enough for two. Love that is endless enough for more. Love that is just between me and you.

Rachel Higginson

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. The part I gave you is the wick. It's what makes the lantern work. You are my wick, Farrow. I need you to soar.

Lisa Marie

#15. 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