I was never in politics before I contested the Lok Sabha by-elections after my father's death. — Naveen Patnaik Copy Share Image
It took a thing like my father's death to make me decide that I actually wanted to pursue drumming. — Jason Bonham Copy Share Image
“How does one reveal a father’s death, a baron’s threats, and a new lord’s arrival?” — Michele Sinclair Copy Share Image
My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life. — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
[On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time… — Zoe Wanamaker Copy Share Image
My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
A few years after my father's death, my mother sent me to the United Kingdom for 'better prospects' in 1951. Those four… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“But you know!" Lily exclaimed. "I know about Father's death," Bronwyn crisply countered,wishing Lily had some ability to control her emotions. But… — Michele Sinclair Copy Share Image
“It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence,… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me.… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Musalia [Mudavadi] was created by [Daniel Toroitich arap] Moi and given his seat after his father's death since Musalia's was one of… — Raila Odinga Copy Share Image
“His eyes gleamed in the darkness. “I don’t understand why mundanes always apologize for things that aren’t their fault.” “I’m not apologizing.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“The bastard. How dare he? I was drowning in a fucking river that he was still attempting to save me from, and… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
My father's death has given me a lot. It has given me a lifelong love of women, of their grittiness and hardness… — Aisling Bea Copy Share Image
My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn't help, specifically… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“It was the first genuinely shining day of summer, a time of year which brought Eleanor always to aching memories of her… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“At thirteen, Noboru was convinced of his own genius (each of the others in the gang felt the same way) and certain… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“His own life suddenly seemed repellently formal. Whom did he know or what did he know and whom did he love? Sitting… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Since I’ve been home I’ve been trying hard to mend my relationship with my mother. Asking her to do things for me… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Adam said, “Just thinking.” And he was thinking with amazement, Why, I’m not afraid of my brother! I used to be scared… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Now I know grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
“The story told in these quaint words was, without any doubt, read by Shakespeare and in the alembic of his imagination grew… — Mary Platt Parmele Copy Share Image
“Grass Fires" No ease for the boy at his keyhole, his telescope, when the women's white bodies flashed in the bathroom. Young,… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
I had hated these ponies for the part they played in my father's death but now I realized the notion was fanciful,… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
Laila Smith is one such girl whose heart has been broken many times. She is an outcast in her school and has… — Chirag Jain Copy Share Image
“That this exceptionally scholarly man whose judgments, always rich and sensitive, though sometimes austere, should have embarked on an intensely romantic retelling… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“So when Finn sailed back down the Negro at dawn, he saw no flames and heard no roaring as the house was… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
“They had grown out of childhood in the last few days. Christmas as Christmas had passed unnoticed since their father had died… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“tear. Short and nebbishy, he had a charmingly awkward persona that concealed a big ambition: to establish Condé Nast as the most… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“[On Socrates] My decision to prove reincarnation to the sophomoric cavemen of Athens, quite possibly, was the best decision I made for… — Alejandro C. Estrada Copy Share Image
“Trust me, Mr. Maxwell.” No more Christian name familiarity for him! “Greyden Kane has never had to ‘overwhelm’ anyone.” He was overwhelming… — Kathryn Smith Copy Share Image
I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of… — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
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