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Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring! -- Samuel Francis Smith
Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe. -- Suzanne Collins
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'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
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
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
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
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of? -- Kiran Desai
My father died and left me his blessing and his business. His blessing brought no money into my pocket, and as to his business, it soon deserted me, for I was busy writing poetry, and could not attend to law, and my clients, though they had great respect for my talents, had no faith in a poetical attorney. -- Washington Irving
My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty. -- Giulio Andreotti
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
My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day. -- David Ayer
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
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
My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family. -- Philip Levine
I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me. -- Lady Gaga
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
My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer. -- Hill Harper
When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular. -- Goodman Ace
My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy. -- Barbara Mikulski
When my father died, I was living in England. It was very traumatic that he died when I was away. -- Sharon Creech
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
A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, "Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die. -- Benedicta Ward
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. -- Victor Borge
When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America. -- Louise Bourgeois
Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood. -- Marc Davis
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago. -- Donald Johanson
My father died when I was quite small, so my uncle used to buy me books and read them to me. -- Jenny Nimmo
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
After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try. -- Leon Black
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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'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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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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