A Quote by Chris Gardner

I grew up without a father.

Chris Gardner

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Chris Gardner
American - Businessman
Born: February 9, 1954

I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.

Gloria Gaynor

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

Abraham Lincoln

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

Jules Feiffer

I grew up without a father figure.

Kane Brown

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.

Lil Durk

Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5.

Bill Dedman

A lot of people don't even know that about me, I grew up without a father.

Marquise Goodwin

Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I grew up around a lot of Jews. I grew up culturally Jewish, ethnically Jewish, but without real belief and without a strong faith.

David Gregory

Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.

Mona Simpson

My father grew up in West Texas, in Lubbock, and I've got family here, and I grew up a Dallas Cowboy fan all my life.

Matt Cassel

I grew up without TV, I grew up listening to radio, I grew up reading.

Hilary Hahn

I mean, I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I grew up poor, and I grew up rich. I think some people who have never met me have a misconception that when I was living with my father when he was successful, that I was somehow adversely affected by his success or the money he had and was making at the time.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

Iman Abdulmajid

I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

Laura Moser

In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.