I guess she was a life line
Sewing our family fabric together
From me to dad to her
Gave me a sense of continuity
Especially when my daughter was born
As she was slipping away


Richard L. Ratliff

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RICHARD DAWSON
'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.
RICHARD DAWSON
It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy ...
RICHARD DAWSON
I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.
RICHARD DAWSON
The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had n...
RICHARD DAWSON
They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.
RICHARD DAWSON
There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that&...
RICHARD DAWSON
The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go...
RICHARD DAWSON
You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.
RICHARD DAWSON
It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!
RICHARD DAWSON
And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... Go...
RICHARD DAWSON
God bless all the little children in the world.
RICHARD DAWSON
About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.
RICHARD DAWSON
Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.
RICHARD DAWSON
I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
RICHARD DAWSON
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
RICHARD MASUR
You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I...
RICHARD MASUR
Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you ...
RICHARD MASUR
I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so ...
RICHARD MASUR
You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.
RICHARD MASUR
No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an...
RICHARD MASUR
Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway ridi...
RICHARD MASUR
But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. A...
RICHARD MASUR
There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.
RICHARD MASUR
For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sale...
RICHARD MASUR
The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training grou...
RICHARD MASUR
I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wea...
RICHARD SIMMONS
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message ...
RICHARD GRASSO
For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless...
RICHARD ENGEL
To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't ju...
RICHARD SHERMAN
I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought t...
RICHARD SHERMAN
I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had...
RICHARD MARX
For my wife Mary Corliss and me, 'Colbert' has been destination viewing. Even in the early y...
RICHARD CORLISS
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that ...
RICHARD COURANT
Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor u...
RICHARD MOURDOCK
I think the humor of double puns is incredible.
RICHARD LEDERER
To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to...
RICHARD BRANSON
I've been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and i...
RICHARD BRANSON
A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.
RICHARD BRANSON
The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
RICHARD BRANSON
One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
RICHARD BRANSON
Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the peopl...
RICHARD BRANSON
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does...
RICHARD AVEDON
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such lib...
RICHARD LOVELACE
Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
RICHARD DAWKINS
It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right?...
RICHARD ROHR
Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance abo...
RICHARD CORLISS
I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castl...
RICHARD MATHESON
Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
RICHARD GERE
I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show ...
RICHARD FLEESHMAN
My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doi...
RICHARD ROXBURGH
Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to tu...
RICHARD LOUV
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD
I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for tho...
RICHARD MACDONALD
Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were ...
RICHARD FOREMAN