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When you lose a parent at ten years old, the world seems like a much scarier place. It makes complete sense to me that I took survival courses when I was a teenager and started going to war zones as a reporter. I didn't ever want to be taken advantage of, and I wanted to be able to take care of those around me.

— Anderson Cooper

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life.

— Rory Kinnear

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.

— J. B. Smoove

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

— Jenny Lewis

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

— Jon Hamm

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

— Walter Mosley

Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.

— Wayne Swan

Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

— Eric Shanteau

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

— Fred Wilson

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

✗Opposing Perspectives

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

— Laura Linney