Left behind Quote by Colum McCann Download Open image ““He was the son of his son--he was here, he was left behind.”” — Colum McCann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Left behind
“One is considered as a son if he were to remove all of his father's troubles.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
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“One would have said he was his son's servant rather than his father.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
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I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy;… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
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