Crash Quote by Mario Cuomo

My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and…

— Isabel Allende

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle…

— Black Elk

My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific, and he thought…

— Sturgill Simpson

Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

— Kid Rock

I was convinced that death was stalking my family, because my grandfather died a couple of days after my dad nearly drowned.

— Rebecca Front

My mom told me that when the car struck me, I landed 80 feet off the road. When they found me, I was curled…

— Sara Evans

I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his…

— Bill Cosby

My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied…

— Stark Young

I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power…

— Anthony Shadid

I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go…

— Alan J. Heeger

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap…

— Buffalo Bill

My father, Rodolfo, worked as a train conductor and that's how we came to live in the railway car. The Government owned it, and…

— Julio Cesar Chavez Sr