At some level it's still hard for me to admit that my father died. I can talk about it and around it,… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
My mother emigrated from Russia as a young child. She couldn't speak English and had no education. Her father died at age… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
My father died beside trees on iron rails... He had 77 dollars on him at the time, and we used the money… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
The year after my father died, I started football training. He was the drive for me; he was my idol. I said… — Henrikh Mkhitaryan Copy Share Image
I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with… — Toni Tennille Copy Share Image
When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
In 1989, my father died after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. All four of his siblings followed him into the shadow… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
“He went on to tell me that before the workshop he hadn’t cried for years, even when his father died, even when… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavement suddenly… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss… — Alicia Coppola Copy Share Image
My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war… — Giulio Andreotti Copy Share Image
“Reading is the first to go," my mother used to say, meaning that it was a luxury the brain dispensed with under… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“She needed to recover. His father had died in January; it was only the end of May. They needed to stick to… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
“It’s amazing how many tears one person can have. One night after my father died, I had cried so much I started… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother...… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
“You're the man now,' she said to me after my father died, 'you're the man.' Then she turned to Popeye, our calico… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“got out of the car first, her face solemn and sad. Then the girl got out. Carrie had to force herself to… — Suzanne Woods Fisher Copy Share Image
There's no greater feeling than people coming up to me and going, "Man, my father was dying, and we went to see… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers… — Manfred Rommel Copy Share Image
My grandmother passed away from diabetes. And my father died from heart disease as a result of diabetes. They were in their… — Alvin Leung Copy Share Image
“My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was… — John Green Copy Share Image
When my father died, I was living in England. It was very traumatic that he died when I was away. — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I… — Irina Shayk Copy Share Image
After my father died, we went to church for a long time every day, and then every other day during the summer. — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
Did I become an entertainer because my father died and I wanted to be what he loved? I don't know. — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started.… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
I didn't know my grandparents. They were - my grandfather - my maternal grandfather died when I was five. I have very… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I relate with military families and Gold Star families. Gold Star families are families where somebody didn't come home. My father died… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was… — Conrad Veidt 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
“My father had died, and very swiftly too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was seventy-nine. I am sixty-one. In whatever kind… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image