Alive Quote by John Dickerson

I lost my mom when I was young.

— Ad-Rock

After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

— Nancy Hale

My mom died when I was 8.

— Lisa Guerrero

Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.

— Molly Shannon

It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate

— Victor Cruz

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.

— Lillian Hellman

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays…

— Tracy K. Smith

Losing my mother at such an early age is the scar of my soul. But I feel like it ultimately made me into the…

— Mariska Hargitay

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.

— William Lilly

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a…

— John Green

My mother was really amazing and left me with a whole lot of treasures. I miss her terribly.

— Dianne Reeves