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  • Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring! -- Samuel Francis Smith
  • When my stepfather died, I just kind of fell apart. I felt pretty vulnerable, like there literally could be no tomorrow. -- David Spade
  • I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died. -- T. D. Jakes
  • My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved. -- Robert Winston
  • Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult. -- Michel Houellebecq
  • I got my very last tattoo after my father died. I'm not getting anymore; otherwise I'll end up like Mike Tyson with a tattoo on my face. -- Seann William Scott
  • I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter.. -- Drew Carey
  • It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
  • My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama. -- Richard E. Grant
  • My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died. -- Mary Augusta Ward
  • In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on. -- Jessica Lange
  • I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day. -- John Nettles
  • You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life -- John Irving
  • Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us. -- William Saroyan
  • But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected. -- Javier Bardem
  • I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died. -- Andrew Wyeth
  • When my father died of AIDS, I knew I had to do everything in my power to prevent others from going through what he endured. I support AmFAR which provides funds for cutting edge AIDS research so we can find a vaccine and a cure. -- Natasha Richardson
  • I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life. -- Sonia Sotomayor
  • If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me -- Charlie Hunnam
  • In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their families by selling their bodies. Had I been older when my father died, I might have been among them. Instead I learned to hunt. -- Suzanne Collins
  • Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose. -- Mitt Romney
  • After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try. -- Leon Black
  • My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding. -- Richard Ford
  • I have made my own decisions ever since my father died. -- Pat Nixon
  • My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day. -- David Ayer
  • If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied. -- Rudyard Kipling
  • I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child. -- Don Rickles
  • My father was right. Unfortunately, he died before I could tell him. -- Laura Schlessinger
  • I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me. -- Lady Gaga
  • My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family. -- Philip Levine
  • My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. -- James Rainwater
  • Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's. -- Desmond Dekker
  • My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing. -- George Kennedy
  • Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died. -- Alexander Pope
  • Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough? -- Anne Sexton
  • My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer. -- Hill Harper
  • The greatest tragedy is a life lived and died without knowing Father God intimately and experiencing His love personally. -- Bob Parr
  • You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular. -- Goodman Ace
  • When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • When my father died, I was living in England. It was very traumatic that he died when I was away. -- Sharon Creech
  • Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe. -- Suzanne Collins
  • My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy. -- Barbara Mikulski
  • My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34. -- John Gokongwei
  • Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures. -- Brian Andreas
  • My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. -- Victor Borge
  • A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, "Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die. -- Benedicta Ward
  • Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood. -- Marc Davis
  • My father died when I was quite small, so my uncle used to buy me books and read them to me. -- Jenny Nimmo
  • When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America. -- Louise Bourgeois
  • My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago. -- Donald Johanson
  • The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
  • Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you. -- N.D. Wilson
  • Her family was a relay team racing toward Tomorrowland, but her father died, and in their shock they kept losing the baton. -- Stacy Bierlein
  • IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere. -- Edward Carpenter
  • Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way. -- Kevin Connolly
  • What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours. -- William Shakespeare
  • Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible. -- Billy Graham
  • When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church. -- T. D. Jakes
  • My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him. -- Henry Ford
  • Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died. -- Colm Toibin
  • I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life. -- J. Paul Getty
  • Jesus did not die to increase our self-esteem. Rather, Jesus died to bring glory to the Father by redeeming people from the curse of sin. -- Edward T Welch
  • DNA, DNA, DNA. You never ever deny it, fool. I thought he is my cold enemy. When he died, he became my father. Says Bhutta (Biography) -- M.K. Bhutta
  • In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the month my father died. -- Clive Sinclair
  • In 1989, my father died after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. All four of his siblings followed him into the shadow lands of that fascinating, maddening affliction. -- Charlie Pierce
  • My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question. -- David Ogden Stiers
  • I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do. -- Zadie Smith
  • My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say. -- Simon McBurney
  • Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life. -- Marc Forster
  • I got my very last tattoo after my father died. I'm not getting anymore; otherwise I'll end up like Mike Tyson with a tattoo on my face. -- Seann William Scott
  • Before my mother died, she made me promise to do everything that could be done to make sure my father was not left alone after she was gone. -- Farrah Fawcett
  • My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead. -- John C. Hawkes
  • Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,Raged at his breast, gulped and died,Do not weep.War is kind. -- Stephen Crane
  • My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death. -- R. T. Rybak
  • I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us. -- Sonia Braga
  • My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas. -- George Weah
  • My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. -- Paul Robeson
  • Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids. -- Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
  • Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids. -- Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
  • My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all. -- Katharine Hepburn
  • When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal. -- Loudon Wainwright III
  • My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day. -- Kara Swisher
  • Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity. -- Thomas G. Stemberg
  • I was very attached to my family when my father died. I was 19. I was about to go live with my father right when he died, so it was very intense. -- Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline. -- Khushwant Singh
  • My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn't take very good care of himself. -- Clint Eastwood
  • When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears. -- Criss Angel
  • I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree. -- Ram Shriram
  • At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my father died; my response to his death was atheistic. -- Sergei Prokofiev
  • My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York. -- Larry King
  • I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings. -- John Galliano
  • My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it. -- Natasha Josefowitz
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