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EMMA BIEL My mother had a heart attack when she was about 50. My uncle died of a heart attack at 58. Both of m...
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I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep...
ROBERT WINSTON![]()
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ...
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KAROLYN GRIMES![]()
When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of ...
BONNIE BEDELIA Mortality! It's intimations of mortality. I'm 58, and by that time, more people you know have died. ...
DONALD FAGEN My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're tita...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III![]()
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat...
JOAN LINGARD![]()
Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, to...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR![]()
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M...
KIRAN DESAI My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of...
R. T. RYBAK![]()
His right hemisphere had died. He knew so many people who had died that in his present state of diss...
IAN MCEWAN![]()
Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure.
DEYTH BANGER![]()
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
DONALD JOHANSON She managed a lot of the properties and built a lot of buildings and houses after he died. She reall...
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My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen ...
JIM YONG KIM I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore y...
BERNIE MAC Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymor...
MARC FORSTER![]()
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea...
WALTER MOSLEY![]()
From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn't realized the world had changed a l...
DAPHNE GUINNESS![]()
Nine years ago, my mother died and my father wore black for a year and a half.
NICHOLAS SPARKS![]()
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and d...
VICTOR BORGE![]()
My father would pick me up and hold me high in the air. He dominated my life as long as he lived, an...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS![]()
When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek p...
EMMA TENNANT![]()
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis....
STUART ROSE I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t...
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My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe...
JUDITH BUTLER It's a great cause. I had a mother who died of cancer when I was young.
JOE SUSTERSIC Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but th...
KIKI SMITH Part of me died when he died. You've got a 17-year-old who went to his grave for something he did no...
DAVID GARZA Another boy died in my arms, he had severe chest injuries. he was sitting in a Chinese restaurant, h...
MICHAEL HARTLICH![]()
He enlisted and went on to fight in World War II and fight for civil rights at home, when he got bac...
ETHAN HAWKE My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG![]()
My driving habits are so ingrained that the driving examiner would fail me in the first mile. That&#...
JASPER CARROTT![]()
A couple of years before he died, I kissed my father goodbye. He said, 'Son, you haven't kis...
TERRY WOGAN![]()
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucil...
BILL MURRAY![]()
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatev...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland...
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I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
STEVEN WRIGHT My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recor...
TOM GLAZER![]()
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PLATO![]()
What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully
my mother looks, and my father died...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband...
ORLANDO BLOOM We don't have a lot of Henry's personal items because when he died, his family had an estate sale. H...
CATHERINE DEAN We don't have a lot of Henry's personal items because when he died, his family had an estate sale, ....
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My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My...
CHUCK D I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look...
BRUCE PALTROW My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died ...
DAMIAN MARLEY But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he wh...
BIBLE A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY![]()
My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated...
SYLVIA PLATH They found the manager of that building right underneath that blanket. His name was Carlos Garcia. H...
GARY MICHIELS My husband died doing what he loved most, flying, ... I'm proud of my husband. He was an extraordina...
PATRICK STEWART After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how ...
CONRAD VEIDT![]()
My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my...
HENRY FORD My parents don't have a lot of money, and it was only when my mum's mum died that we could b...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN![]()
I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I wa...
RAM SHRIRAM![]()
So I went to the dentist. He said "Say Aaah." I said "Why?" He said "My dog's died.'
TOMMY COOPER She died with a lot of secrets of mine.
DEJA DANIELS My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
JAMES RAINWATER He followed in my foot steps. He died doing what he wanted to do. He was a Marine and that's what Ma...
ED HUGHES My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to ...
BONNIE TYLER That was getting close to happening when Julie Harris had a stroke, and then my mother got ill and e...
LUKE YANKEE When my mother and father died, Chef cooked food just like what we're enjoying here today.
WALTER YOUNG He died a hero,
FRANCO FRATTINI He died very peacefully with a smile on his face.
DAVID BLUEFIELD I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around an...
ED HARRIS![]()
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A...
GAVIN DEGRAW After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled...
RONNIE MUSGROVE Slobodan is a true son of the Serbian people, a historic personality. He died undefeated.
BORISLAV MILOSEVIC Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. The nice...
LETA GANDOLFINI Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make, ... The ...
JAMES GANDOLFINI I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot...
ANTHONY BROWNE After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summe...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY![]()
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gift...
GUSTAV MAHLER My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when...
STANLEY HAUERWAS![]()
My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he salute...
HENNY YOUNGMAN![]()
I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.
DREW GILPIN FAUST![]()
Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA![]()
When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
STEPHEN KING![]()
I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old....
RON WHITE When he died he had the body of an 84-year-old man, but a spirit of an 11- or 12-year-old boy.
JAMES REILLY The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play ...
ART DONOVAN It was at the very top, the tip top of a slow murder. Do you think after the beating he took that da...
FERDIE PACHECO![]()
When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get...
MICHAEL BUBLE He should die the way my sister died.
CAROL MILLER![]()
I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led...
ALEX HONNOLD![]()
My brother Alan - who was seven years younger than me - died from leukemia when he was 52. He never ...
BRIAN BLESSED He wasn't deceased. When we got him out, he had a shot. He died at the hospital.
LLOYD AYERS Here beneath rest the ashes of a man who was in habit of always postponing everything till the day a...
FRITIOF NILSSON PIRATEN I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l...
ANNE FOX My favorite uncle died when I was eleven, and that was two months after 9/11, so that was a particul...
ADAM SILVERA![]()
My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got t...
ARABELLA WEIR![]()
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a li...
MICHAEL HANEKE
EMMA BIEL My mother had a heart attack when she was about 50. My uncle died of a heart attack at 58. Both of m...
JOY BEHAR
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no famil...
KAROLYN GRIMES
When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of ... BONNIE BEDELIA Mortality! It's intimations of mortality. I'm 58, and by that time, more people you know have died. ...
DONALD FAGEN My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're tita...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD
Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M... KIRAN DESAI My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of...
R. T. RYBAK
His right hemisphere had died. He knew so many people who had died that in his present state of diss... IAN MCEWAN
Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure. DEYTH BANGER
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago. DONALD JOHANSON She managed a lot of the properties and built a lot of buildings and houses after he died. She reall...
WENDY MILLER
My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen ... JIM YONG KIM I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore y...
BERNIE MAC Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymor...
MARC FORSTER
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY
From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn't realized the world had changed a l... DAPHNE GUINNESS
Nine years ago, my mother died and my father wore black for a year and a half. NICHOLAS SPARKS
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and d... VICTOR BORGE
My father would pick me up and hold me high in the air. He dominated my life as long as he lived, an... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS
When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek p... EMMA TENNANT
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis.... STUART ROSE I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t...
ALAN J. HEEGER
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe... JUDITH BUTLER It's a great cause. I had a mother who died of cancer when I was young.
JOE SUSTERSIC Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but th...
KIKI SMITH Part of me died when he died. You've got a 17-year-old who went to his grave for something he did no...
DAVID GARZA Another boy died in my arms, he had severe chest injuries. he was sitting in a Chinese restaurant, h...
MICHAEL HARTLICH
He enlisted and went on to fight in World War II and fight for civil rights at home, when he got bac... ETHAN HAWKE My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG
My driving habits are so ingrained that the driving examiner would fail me in the first mile. That&#... JASPER CARROTT
A couple of years before he died, I kissed my father goodbye. He said, 'Son, you haven't kis... TERRY WOGAN
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucil... BILL MURRAY
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatev... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland...
JOHN C. HAWKES
I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car. STEVEN WRIGHT My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recor...
TOM GLAZER
The measure of a man is what he does with power. PLATO
What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully
my mother looks, and my father died... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... ORLANDO BLOOM We don't have a lot of Henry's personal items because when he died, his family had an estate sale. H...
CATHERINE DEAN We don't have a lot of Henry's personal items because when he died, his family had an estate sale, ....
CATHERINE DEAN
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My... CHUCK D I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look...
BRUCE PALTROW My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died ...
DAMIAN MARLEY But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he wh...
BIBLE A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY
My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated... SYLVIA PLATH They found the manager of that building right underneath that blanket. His name was Carlos Garcia. H...
GARY MICHIELS My husband died doing what he loved most, flying, ... I'm proud of my husband. He was an extraordina...
PATRICK STEWART After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how ...
CONRAD VEIDT
My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my... HENRY FORD My parents don't have a lot of money, and it was only when my mum's mum died that we could b...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN
I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I wa... RAM SHRIRAM
So I went to the dentist. He said "Say Aaah." I said "Why?" He said "My dog's died.' TOMMY COOPER She died with a lot of secrets of mine.
DEJA DANIELS My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
JAMES RAINWATER He followed in my foot steps. He died doing what he wanted to do. He was a Marine and that's what Ma...
ED HUGHES My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to ...
BONNIE TYLER That was getting close to happening when Julie Harris had a stroke, and then my mother got ill and e...
LUKE YANKEE When my mother and father died, Chef cooked food just like what we're enjoying here today.
WALTER YOUNG He died a hero,
FRANCO FRATTINI He died very peacefully with a smile on his face.
DAVID BLUEFIELD I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around an...
ED HARRIS
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A... GAVIN DEGRAW After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled...
RONNIE MUSGROVE Slobodan is a true son of the Serbian people, a historic personality. He died undefeated.
BORISLAV MILOSEVIC Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. The nice...
LETA GANDOLFINI Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make, ... The ...
JAMES GANDOLFINI I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot...
ANTHONY BROWNE After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summe...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gift... GUSTAV MAHLER My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when...
STANLEY HAUERWAS
My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he salute... HENNY YOUNGMAN
I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died. DREW GILPIN FAUST
Like a deep sad noteplayed beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA
When a man has died, he wants you to know about it. STEPHEN KING
I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old.... RON WHITE When he died he had the body of an 84-year-old man, but a spirit of an 11- or 12-year-old boy.
JAMES REILLY The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play ...
ART DONOVAN It was at the very top, the tip top of a slow murder. Do you think after the beating he took that da...
FERDIE PACHECO
When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get... MICHAEL BUBLE He should die the way my sister died.
CAROL MILLER
I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led... ALEX HONNOLD
My brother Alan - who was seven years younger than me - died from leukemia when he was 52. He never ... BRIAN BLESSED He wasn't deceased. When we got him out, he had a shot. He died at the hospital.
LLOYD AYERS Here beneath rest the ashes of a man who was in habit of always postponing everything till the day a...
FRITIOF NILSSON PIRATEN I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l...
ANNE FOX My favorite uncle died when I was eleven, and that was two months after 9/11, so that was a particul...
ADAM SILVERA
My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got t... ARABELLA WEIR
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a li...
MICHAEL HANEKE
It is the growling man who lives a dog's life. 
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When David [Arquette] and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year o... 
There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters. 
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Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941 The dual role of pers... 
Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisi... 