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After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them. -- Wladimir Klitschko
My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died. -- Richard Flanagan
My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery. -- Brooke Shields
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 was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways. -- Vanessa Kerry
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. -- Samuel Butler
I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own. -- Kara Swisher
Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality. -- Laurence Fox
Whether I'm writing a novel about a guy mourning the death of his father or whether I'm writing a show about people killing each other, you want to hear characters speak and be funny and witty. -- Jonathan Tropper
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father. -- Johnny Cash
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. -- Tom Hiddleston
I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience of my father, who was a slave laborer on the Death Railway, represents one of its low points. -- Richard Flanagan
Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept. -- Carol Leifer
I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970. -- Aage Bohr
If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets. -- Sachin Tendulkar
Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.' -- Kenneth Branagh
Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died. -- Kiki Smith
We are the spirit children of a Heavenly Father. He loved us and He taught us before we were born into this world. He told us that He wished to give us all that He had. To qualify for that gift we had to receive mortal bodies and be tested. Because of those mortal bodies, we would face pain, sickness, and death. -- Henry B. Eyring
My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past. -- A. R. Rahman
After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more. -- Elie Wiesel
Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death. -- Kathleen Kennedy
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their fatherâ??s estate -- Chinua Achebe
I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed. -- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
[On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much. -- Erma Bombeck
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony -- Niccolo Machiavelli
What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave! -- St. Catherine of Siena
Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted. -- Sam Sheppard
Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages. -- Thomas Watson
The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work. -- Jamie Wyeth
A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life. -- Sigmund Freud
Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family. -- George Washington
The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends. -- Joel Osteen
My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education. -- Abraham Lincoln
[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent. -- Nat Hentoff
Death was kind.He drew a sharp breath. But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child. -- Mark Lawrence
My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play. -- Hugh Leonard
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
She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die. -- Melissa Bank
Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death. -- Simone Weil
Father, perfect my trust;Let my spirit feel in death,That her feet are firmly setOn the rock of a living faith! -- Phoebe Cary
Lynet scowled. "I'm just so tired of young knights wearing their father's armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death. -- Gerald Morris
A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death. -- Wes Fesler
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it. -- Mario Puzo
My father was a doctor so I was around death all my life. So, I was very used to it because he was a f-king doctor. -- Joan Rivers
Hopefully I never get hit with that stigma of being a novelty act. Since [my father] death in 1998 I've been doing a program called Sinatra Sings Sinatra. -- Frank Sinatra, Jr.
When I'm wrong I'm like the Emperor on the Death Star thinking he'll turn Luke. Yet, when I'm right I'm a Jedi like my father before me. -- Dane Cook
My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty. -- Andrew Cuomo
God the Father has reconciled His created but fallen world through the death of His Son, and renews it into a Kingdom of God by His Spirit. -- Herman Bavinck
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
My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself. -- Gustavo Perez Firmat
Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life. -- Alan Bradley

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