Brother Quote by Shakin' Stevens

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

— Andrew Solomon

[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster…

— Dwight Yoakam

I knew nothing about my mum's family. Her parents were dead by the time she was 14. She was brought up by two aunts,…

— Jasmine Guinness

My grandma was a child of the Depression, and knew the tragedy of having her home outside Diller was destroyed by a tornado.

— Ben Sasse

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

In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer.…

— Rory Bremner

My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents.

— Elizabeth Diller

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was…

— Margaret Mahy

My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember her. I do remember, though,…

— John Lloyd Young

My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all…

— Renata Adler

My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my…

— Bobby Clarke

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