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The extremely low level of organ donation in Australia is leaving hundreds of people young and old l...
ANNE WILSON For nearly 20 years, we have documented the huge impact that diabetes has on the health care system,...
GRAHAM COLDITZ Terri was almost a week into her death process, ... The doctors have said that introducing hydration...
GEORGE FELOS![]()
After I die if I am buried I will rot. If I am burnt I will become ash but if my body is donated I w...
AMIT ABRAHAM For me and for our family, looking at death is its glory, and an opportunity to thank God for this g...
RONNENE HARRIS I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif...
VANESSA KERRY I thank the family for the organ donation. I got my sight back.
DUANE DOWNING My mom is a tough woman, ... She's been on dialysis (awaiting a kidney transplant) since I was in th...
FRANK GORE I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a ne...
PETER WRIGHT My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc....
ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON 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 mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her ...
GINGER ROGERS My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc....
ELIZABETH ANDERSON My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc....
ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON![]()
My mother shut all her family out of her life over the years, though we made several futile attempts...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER This is truly a remarkable insight to Marilyn's personal world just one year before her death.
DARREN JULIEN![]()
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to be...
PAT CONROY If someone develops diabetes when they're 8-years-old, by the time they are 28, they have developed ...
LORRAINE VALDEZ![]()
I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to ...
JONAH LOMU![]()
My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously throu...
BUCK OWENS My mom really raised me, so I took her name before I ever thought about having a career. It was for ...
MAX CASELLA I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump ...
PATTY LOVELESS Even in death, her mother was winning.
NOORILHUDA Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I...
MAX CLELAND My mother was a very prominent lady in New Orleans. Everybody knew my mother. If she dies here, nobo...
ANNE WARD Jay Griffin taught a chess class and he decided to form the club. We met at Mother of Sorrows church...
JOE LAWLOR![]()
My mother was a very, very funny, outrageous, outspoken person, and she never edited me. Her whole t...
TIG NOTARO We must remember that increasing living donation alone will not save enough lives. We must continue ...
PATRICIA ADAMS Our family and friends are praying for a miracle but are also preparing for the worst and making arr...
DAVID LORD It was my dream for several years to own a Friesian.
GALE WOLFE St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in...
ERIC MILNER-WHITE In my talks to churches, the way I approach the topic, if asked what are my views on organ donation,...
DALE FLOWERS![]()
When I was outed by Perez Hilton as bisexual, I suddenly started being asked personal questions, whi...
SIA When Christopher got his license it had the organ donation on the back. My husband is a retired fire...
SANDY NELSON I think Austria would be very stupid, indeed, to put me in jail for several years.
DAVID IRVING![]()
It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of t...
JONAH LOMU![]()
My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children ...
EZEKIEL EMANUEL While it is true that many hep C victims became infected through blood transfusions or organ transpl...
GENE WEINGARTEN She was a very, very religious person. She played piano and organ at her church at one time.
CONRAD COLEMAN She is obviously very disappointed as she had wanted to go to Vietnam for several years to highlight...
CARRIE BROOKS My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my pare...
JACK RAMSAY I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like ...
SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for severa...
REBECCA DE MORNAY![]()
My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some...
JONATHAN WINTERS![]()
Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER![]()
Upon the death of her mother-in-law, Elearnor Roosevelt said, "It is truly a tragedy of life to have...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We've chose the Transplant Resource Center, an organ donation center, to be the recipient of this ye...
MIKE STAMPER![]()
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Several of our officers have been around for quite a few years, and the citizens know them on a pers...
WADE ESTEP![]()
The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity,...
STEVEN COJOCARU But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very domin...
BEATRICE WOOD I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to ...
DAVID BLAINE They just really impressed me. Me and my dad went out there on that visit, and when we were there, t...
LAURA ENGEL![]()
I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I ...
EMMELINE PANKHURST It was very therapeutic for me. It was actually like I got to lay my hands on her. I couldn't wait f...
JIM FOX She had run away from home on several different occasions, but on this specific date her mother did ...
MIKE SCHEMBRI My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, per...
LEILA ABOULELA![]()
As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into c...
BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western ...
PETER NYGARD![]()
My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.
GARY SHTEYNGART I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ...
DARYL HALL My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
ANGIE DICKINSON![]()
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly befor...
ISABEL ALLENDE![]()
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always tol...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG This week was the first anniversary of the death of my father and I had long promised my mother we w...
JUERGEN KLINSMANN I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here.
~AUTHOR UNKNOWN![]()
We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT![]()
But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.
SARAH J. MAAS![]()
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ...
JOAN RIVERS My most defining moment was the death of my mother.
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE![]()
I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career...
RANBIR KAPOOR![]()
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman under...
JOAN RIVERS My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jes...
DICK GREGORY Naturally, Olivia Newton-John is extremely concerned about the whereabouts of Patrick McDermott, her...
GAVIN DE BECKER![]()
My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ...
ANGELINA JOLIE I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul...
RICK JAMES My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I...
MEGHAN O'ROURKE When I was standing on the podium, actually, I found her in the crowd and I don't think I have seen ...
DENIS PETUKHOV![]()
My mother had several beautiful parrots and some monkeys; one of the latter was a full-grown male of...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
ALAN PARKER My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the f...
VALORIE CURRY The bullet hit a blood vessel in his neck. And out here, that's not a very good prognosis. He bled t...
JIM BECKA What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her l...
AL LEWIS My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was...
KAROLYN GRIMES![]()
Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last...
BILLY GRAHAM I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was pic...
MARY LOU WILLIAMS I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first...
SONDRA RADVANOVSKY![]()
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother play...
JOHNNY CASH![]()
My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was ...
JOE GIBBS When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN![]()
My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have come...
WILL ROGERS![]()
My mother is my friend
Who shares with me her bread
All my hopelessness cured!
Her co...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR![]()
My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchi...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER She had a personal relationship with Jesus. A real one. Even in her death that was very evident to u...
BECKY HOLLAND![]()
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman u...
JOAN RIVERS I really love pouring myself into a character for several months and leaving her, ... Pouring myself...
CARLA GUGINO![]()
One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me bef...
SARAH WATERS My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just t...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Ro...
OSCAR ISAAC
ANNE WILSON For nearly 20 years, we have documented the huge impact that diabetes has on the health care system,...
GRAHAM COLDITZ Terri was almost a week into her death process, ... The doctors have said that introducing hydration...
GEORGE FELOS
After I die if I am buried I will rot. If I am burnt I will become ash but if my body is donated I w... AMIT ABRAHAM For me and for our family, looking at death is its glory, and an opportunity to thank God for this g...
RONNENE HARRIS I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif...
VANESSA KERRY I thank the family for the organ donation. I got my sight back.
DUANE DOWNING My mom is a tough woman, ... She's been on dialysis (awaiting a kidney transplant) since I was in th...
FRANK GORE I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a ne...
PETER WRIGHT My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc....
ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON 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 mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her ... GINGER ROGERS My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc....
ELIZABETH ANDERSON My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc....
ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON
My mother shut all her family out of her life over the years, though we made several futile attempts... LAURA SCHLESSINGER This is truly a remarkable insight to Marilyn's personal world just one year before her death.
DARREN JULIEN
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to be... PAT CONROY If someone develops diabetes when they're 8-years-old, by the time they are 28, they have developed ...
LORRAINE VALDEZ
I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to ... JONAH LOMU
My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously throu... BUCK OWENS My mom really raised me, so I took her name before I ever thought about having a career. It was for ...
MAX CASELLA I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump ...
PATTY LOVELESS Even in death, her mother was winning.
NOORILHUDA Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I...
MAX CLELAND My mother was a very prominent lady in New Orleans. Everybody knew my mother. If she dies here, nobo...
ANNE WARD Jay Griffin taught a chess class and he decided to form the club. We met at Mother of Sorrows church...
JOE LAWLOR
My mother was a very, very funny, outrageous, outspoken person, and she never edited me. Her whole t... TIG NOTARO We must remember that increasing living donation alone will not save enough lives. We must continue ...
PATRICIA ADAMS Our family and friends are praying for a miracle but are also preparing for the worst and making arr...
DAVID LORD It was my dream for several years to own a Friesian.
GALE WOLFE St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in...
ERIC MILNER-WHITE In my talks to churches, the way I approach the topic, if asked what are my views on organ donation,...
DALE FLOWERS
When I was outed by Perez Hilton as bisexual, I suddenly started being asked personal questions, whi... SIA When Christopher got his license it had the organ donation on the back. My husband is a retired fire...
SANDY NELSON I think Austria would be very stupid, indeed, to put me in jail for several years.
DAVID IRVING
It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of t... JONAH LOMU
My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children ... EZEKIEL EMANUEL While it is true that many hep C victims became infected through blood transfusions or organ transpl...
GENE WEINGARTEN She was a very, very religious person. She played piano and organ at her church at one time.
CONRAD COLEMAN She is obviously very disappointed as she had wanted to go to Vietnam for several years to highlight...
CARRIE BROOKS My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my pare...
JACK RAMSAY I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like ...
SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for severa...
REBECCA DE MORNAY
My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some... JONATHAN WINTERS
Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfa... MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Upon the death of her mother-in-law, Elearnor Roosevelt said, "It is truly a tragedy of life to have... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We've chose the Transplant Resource Center, an organ donation center, to be the recipient of this ye...
MIKE STAMPER
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art. J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Several of our officers have been around for quite a few years, and the citizens know them on a pers...
WADE ESTEP
The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity,... STEVEN COJOCARU But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very domin...
BEATRICE WOOD I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to ...
DAVID BLAINE They just really impressed me. Me and my dad went out there on that visit, and when we were there, t...
LAURA ENGEL
I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I ... EMMELINE PANKHURST It was very therapeutic for me. It was actually like I got to lay my hands on her. I couldn't wait f...
JIM FOX She had run away from home on several different occasions, but on this specific date her mother did ...
MIKE SCHEMBRI My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, per...
LEILA ABOULELA
As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into c... BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western ...
PETER NYGARD
My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me. GARY SHTEYNGART I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ...
DARYL HALL My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
ANGIE DICKINSON
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly befor... ISABEL ALLENDE
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always tol... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG This week was the first anniversary of the death of my father and I had long promised my mother we w...
JUERGEN KLINSMANN I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here.
~AUTHOR UNKNOWN
We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT
But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years. SARAH J. MAAS
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... JOAN RIVERS My most defining moment was the death of my mother.
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE
I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career... RANBIR KAPOOR
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman under... JOAN RIVERS My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jes...
DICK GREGORY Naturally, Olivia Newton-John is extremely concerned about the whereabouts of Patrick McDermott, her...
GAVIN DE BECKER
My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ... ANGELINA JOLIE I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul...
RICK JAMES My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I...
MEGHAN O'ROURKE When I was standing on the podium, actually, I found her in the crowd and I don't think I have seen ...
DENIS PETUKHOV
My mother had several beautiful parrots and some monkeys; one of the latter was a full-grown male of... JOHN JAMES AUDUBON Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
ALAN PARKER My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the f...
VALORIE CURRY The bullet hit a blood vessel in his neck. And out here, that's not a very good prognosis. He bled t...
JIM BECKA What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her l...
AL LEWIS My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was...
KAROLYN GRIMES
Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last... BILLY GRAHAM I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was pic...
MARY LOU WILLIAMS I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first...
SONDRA RADVANOVSKY
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother play... JOHNNY CASH
My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was ... JOE GIBBS When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN
My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have come... WILL ROGERS
My mother is my friendWho shares with me her bread
All my hopelessness cured!
Her co...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchi... LAURA SCHLESSINGER She had a personal relationship with Jesus. A real one. Even in her death that was very evident to u...
BECKY HOLLAND
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman u... JOAN RIVERS I really love pouring myself into a character for several months and leaving her, ... Pouring myself...
CARLA GUGINO
One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me bef... SARAH WATERS My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just t...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Ro...
OSCAR ISAAC
Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth. 
I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it. 
I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documen... 
I share the skepticism that my friends have about NAFTA. It was woefully weak in protecting workers ... 
When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we... 
In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step ou... 
My family background is Mexican, and I was born in Chicago. It's pretty much family tradition ev... 