Absentee Parents Quotes & Sayings

Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility. — Joe Baca

The world is a courtroom, but your life is the judge. — Uche Okafor

Greatness rarely comes easy. — James Boag

[Drug] Addiction is awful, the worst if it is your kid. Plenty of loving parents who did everything "right" find themselves with kids caught up with drugs, and plenty of absentee parents have kids who never touch the stuff. — Roxanne Roberts

I saw my real gods . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity. — Anne Rice

We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere. — Sofia Coppola

I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic ... (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic. — Herbert Croly

All art is only done by the individual. The individual is all you ever have and all schools only serve to classify their members as failures. — Ernest Hemingway,

Euro Disney is not my vibe. I can't really deal with Disney, man. It's not my thing. — Jamie Campbell Bower

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish. — Tamora Pierce

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years. — Samuel L. Jackson

I was lonely. I felt it deeply and permanently, that this state of being on my own might never disappear. But I welcomed the lonliness, which had everything to do with being anonymous. It's never lonliness that nibbles away at a person's insides, but not having room inside themselves to be comfortably alone. — Rachel Sontag

Whatever is to come has to be faced alone and with as much strength one can muster. — Allen Drury

Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of the family; parent time influences the reconstruction of the family. Parent time influences an era that understands that as either parents loses, so lose the children. — Warren Farrell

Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it. — Kim Cattrall

Together, we soar. — Celeste Bradley

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work. — Harold Ramis