Cancer Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“In whatever kind of a “race” life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“My father had died, and very swiftly too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was seventy-nine. I am sixty-one. In whatever kind of 'race'…

— Christopher Hitchens

As a final example, let's remember Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the World Trade Center. After his name appeared in an ad opposing…

— Bill O'Reilly

My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music…

— Ice T

My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the…

— Anthony Browne

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I…

— Zadie Smith

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

— Donald Johanson

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

— Phyllis Logan

At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen…

— Sergei Prokofiev