As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her loss was and how keenly it will always be felt, there was, nevertheless, a sense of relief that my father, sisters and I could say a final goodbye after the longest goodbye and relief that my mum had finally been released.
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Related All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like... RANSOM RIGGS I was just saying goodbye. They had a lot of fun with me and I had a lot of fun with them and it was... JACK JOHNSON I wonder how it feels to fly. Just spread my wings and say goodbye. KIRPA RAI I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and... PATSY KENSIT I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say... ALEXI GIANNOULIAS I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need... GARY SHEFFIELD I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ... BONO My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and thr... MIKE NICHOLS I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for... GARY NUMAN I'm part of the tribe who have said goodbye to one parent and are feeling a sense of responsibil... PATTI DAVIS It was a wonderful feeling, ... I felt their relief. That hug had such relief and such thanks. It wa... D. MILLER I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from... SARAH DESSEN I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l... ANNE FOX I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mu... NATASHA RICHARDSON A ‘hello again’ after the final goodbye is sometimes harder than just keeping the goodbye as it ... JESSIQUA WITTMAN I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's ... NAOMI CAMPBELL My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my pare... JON KABAT-ZINN My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now... LARRY KING As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do ... TRACY CHAPMAN My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucil... BILL MURRAY My father felt he had no choice. I felt that given time, something could have been worked out and th... DAVID BEHRING But as I stood watching her, I realized how truly hard it was,really, to see someone you love change... SARAH DESSEN It's exciting to be back. It felt good to play with my teammates again. It was great relief. I love ... ALISSA SHEFTIC For a moment, I was captivated as I studied them side by side. My mother: the perfect picture of gua... RICHELLE MEAD [And in May 2000, Pat's agony was compounded when Kevin took his final fix.] In some ways it was a r... PAT MITCHELL I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-y... MEGYN KELLY Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had ... SAFFRON ALDRIDGE The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve... CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just... DON EVERLY But I couldn’t say any of this yet. No one answer felt it could contain anything close to the trut... ASPEN MATIS I felt like someone had ripped my heart out and tossed it across the other side of the room. There w... RICHELLE MEAD I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted he... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother h... CHANTAL AKERMAN I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD A couple of years before he died, I kissed my father goodbye. He said, 'Son, you haven't kis... TERRY WOGAN My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing the... FELICITY JONES It was my last hurrah to win in my hometown. Harding was a special place to say goodbye. KEN VENTURI I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband. TOM CRUISE During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there... INGRID BETANCOURT I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa... VICTOR MITCHELL I had just returned to Woodstock from the Midwest - from my father's funeral. The previous week had ... BOB DYLAN I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to ex... KATHERINE MANSFIELD My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor an... LARRY FITZGERALD One of the first places that they flew me to after the hurricane was San Antonio. I was separated fr... ROBERT BROWN After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how ... CONRAD VEIDT Why didn't I feel that I belonged to my parents? How could I have known that I was not right? I thin... JOAN FRANCES CASEY Eight full lives,” I whispered against his jaw, my voice breaking. “Eight full lives and I never... STEPHENIE MEYER I just felt it was an important time of the game and to be contributing at that stage of the game wo... ANDREW SYMONDS And yet how treacherous, I thought, after such neutrality, bordering on indifference, and occaisonal... OLIVIA SUDJIC My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to ... KING GEORGE V I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh... JENNIFER NIVEN I was a prisoner inside my own body. I felt desperate, angry, stupid, confused, ashamed, hopeless an... CARL SUTTON What I was hoping for is that we could see some kind of 'I'm sorry,' but we didn't get anything like... PAUL HOWELL I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was ... EMILY DESCHANEL Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It wa... CRAIG FERGUSON My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really... GRACE JONES It was clear that VA was in need of reform, and when the president asked for help, I could not say n... DAVID SHULKIN She raised her head when she heard my step, and her gaze met my own, over the matron's dipping shoul... SARAH WATERS Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows ... PARKER J. PALMER I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things ... JOHN IRVING Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always... DAVID HYDE PIERCE It was an important time of the game and to be contributing in that way it would have made me feel g... ANDREW SYMONDS My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it ... ROBIN WRIGHT It is no wonder that I had tears of relief, to find out, finally, the truth - to discover an explana... JEANNIE DAVIDE-RIVERA My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I unders... ICE T As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the momen... ANDIE MACDOWELL I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to ... DAVID BLAINE I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... TRACY MORGAN My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel... ERIKA SLEZAK My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistr... KARY MULLIS What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experi... FRANCESCO QUINN Once this had been the life I'd wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn't believe that there had ... SARAH DESSEN My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested th... MADHURI DIXIT Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who... BEDE GRIFFITHS The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It see... MAUDE ADAMS They always say that the daughter will grow up to look like their mother. So, I asked my girlfriend ... ANTHONY T.HINCKS And the point of Rachel the Film should really have been to express how awful and shitty that loss w... JESSE ANDREWS Because I had my family, I felt like I could be a bird and fly and experience and do. Because I had ... GISELE BUNDCHEN I never really had the chance to say goodbye to the fans. I had a chance at the White House to say g... AARON ROWAND I know there is nothing to say to change my situation. I want to apologize to Laura's father and mot... MAURICE CHEVALIER My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. JONI MITCHELL My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great... DOLORES HUERTA Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my care... LARENZ TATE It was a terrifying moment, and a moment of sheer relief, ... I saw that there was exactly enough ro... MARC COHN When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes... MARLO THOMAS I am my father and my mother. I am my grandparents. I am my friends. I am everyone I have ever spoke... LLOYD HOBBARD-MITCHELL Appearing nude on film was not easy when I was twenty-six in Body Heat; it was even harder when I wa... KATHLEEN TURNER I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished ... RACHEL TUCKER 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON I was raised with my mother saying over and over again to me, “If your friends jumped off the Broo... DEBORAH SIMPSON Every afternoon I listened to the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts and when I was four, I told my... DIXIE CARTER There came a time in my life when I had to admit to myself that I have some very clear narcissistic ... BEVERLY ENGEL I have the right to do my own thinking. I am going to do it. I have never met any minister that I th... ROBERT G. INGERSOLL I will not forgive. I will inflict and invite suffering-all our lives. As Bunni grows up she'll hear... BUDDHADEVA BOSE Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by pu... SEAN COMBS Her father sagged as relief spread through him. “I thought something awful was happening.”<... DEREK LANDY
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JAMES HORNER I think I feel most like a princess when I'm sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whethe... LILY JAMES Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go... JAMES SUROWIECKI I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like ... JAMES MCAVOY Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination. JAMES CAMERON There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what... JAMES PATTERSON As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the si... JAMES LONGSTREET When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.... JAMES SUROWIECKI Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opi... JAMES MADISON The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to ... JAMES MADISON The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be der... JAMES MADISON The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, an... JAMES MADISON Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of country. JAMES MADISON And as it the federal district is to be appropriated to this use with the consent of the State cedin... JAMES MADISON What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty & Learning, each le... JAMES MADISON Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over... JAMES MADISON The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is... JAMES MADISON In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take ... JAMES MADISON War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of rea... JAMES MADISON The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is t... JAMES MADISON I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinate... JAMES MADISON It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the ... JAMES MADISON