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  • As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that. -- Maurice Sendak
  • Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. -- Fred G. Gosman
  • I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths. -- Lynn Johnston
  • The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses. -- Mac Thornberry
  • My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them. -- James Hillman
  • They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it. -- Bruce Jackson
  • I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am. -- Shelby Lynne
  • I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge. -- Dan Pallotta
  • 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
  • I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio. -- John Tesh
  • My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments. -- Amy Bloom
  • Even with protection, even with death threats, I can publish, I can travel and I can live the life that I want and not the one my parents want or some imam somewhere thinks I should live. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government. -- J. D. Hayworth
  • Empire' deals with the black experience, the human experience, sibling rivalry, what it feels like to be ignored or doted upon by a parent, illness, death. There are so many things that I think the audience can identify with. -- Grace Gealey
  • Following Michael Brown's death, I went to Ferguson and met with his parents. I stood with them as they tried to hold their heads high and deal with both their immense loss and the larger issues of police-community relations. -- Al Sharpton
  • I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully. -- Jo Brand
  • I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
  • Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion. -- Sam Harris
  • The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension... these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn't have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me. -- Loudon Wainwright III
  • Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death. -- Katy Butler
  • Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present. -- Ellen Goodman
  • I want to teach parents how they can help their kids with death, grief, and losing things, the journey of life. -- James Van Praagh
  • I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps. -- Art Spiegelman
  • I have not wept since the death of my parents," said Luxa quietly. "But I am thought to be unnatural in this respect. -- Suzanne Collins
  • You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death. -- Mallory Ortberg
  • The church still meets people at the transition points. Marriages break down. Children commit suicide and leave helpless parents. Death and suffering are everywhere. -- Ravi Zacharias
  • I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell -- I'm gone with love away. -- George Moses Horton
  • Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next. -- Veronica Roth
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