Famine Quote by Bernard Shaw

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used…

— Don McLean

My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then…

— Derek Walcott

“And this is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died, we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of…

— Sylvia Plath

After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there…

— Edward Hirsch

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.

— Norm MacDonald

This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our…

— Manfred Rommel

Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

— Anne Sexton

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 him to…

— Clint Eastwood

My mother emigrated from Russia as a young child. She couldn't speak English and had no education. Her father died at age 32, leaving…

— Dianne Feinstein

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

— Donald Johanson

“I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?" Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, "Yes, I'm afraid of spiders." "Were you always?" "What…

— Stephen M. Irwin

Sadly, my father died before I graduated, so he didn't see any of the success at all.

— Phyllis Logan