I was raised by drag queens, practically...My mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of… — Ellen Pompeo Copy Share Image
I looked at the pilgrims coming to America. In their first year, they decided to try a communist experiment. And the first… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A French friend brought over a load of Gainsbourg vinyl and I worked my way through it: by the time I got… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
Life of the soul is union with God, as life of the body is union with the soul. As the soul was… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died? — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on. — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out. — Peaches Geldof Copy Share Image
There are African leaders who have the dangerous habit of leading their people into an abyss. In Rwanda we've had presidents who… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing… — Rick Baker Copy Share Image
I feel really lucky to have found musical success before I'm 30, to be doing absolutely what I want to do. I… — Dido Armstrong Copy Share Image
There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
