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My father lost his business. Our house was locked up, and we had to leave. -- Kumar Pallana
I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college. -- Roma Downey
My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father. -- Hope Solo
After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits. -- Catherine Helen Spence
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist. -- Walter Kohn
I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much. -- Anthony Quinn
My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home. -- Al Feldstein
I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods. -- Tina Ambani
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'. -- Tom Hooper
I lost contact with my father for many years because of apartheid. For, like, six years, I didn't see my dad. And, now, this was the six years of being a teenager. -- Trevor Noah
Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library. -- Anthony Horowitz
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. -- Allan Bloom
For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift. -- Michael Milken
I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that. -- Chiwetel Ejiofor
When I was 12 years old, my father was killed. I lost a loved one to violence. The pain was because I lost my father. It didn't matter that he was an officer... It shaped my life. If anything, it made me a strong advocate for the victims of violence. -- Robert P. McCulloch
The film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,' based the book of the same name, has a line that enlightens and comforts me. The protagonist, who has lost all ability to move except one eye, discusses his role as a father. He notes, 'Even a fraction of a father is still a father.' -- Steve Gleason
I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it. -- Tom Hooper
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What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me? -- William Shakespeare
Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father. -- W. H. Auden
I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery. -- Simon Wiesenthal
[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me ... -- Teresa of Avila
My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there. -- Laurie Beth Jones
To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost. -- Les Lye
[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They gravitated to him right away. -- Patti Smith
It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things. When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things, can you? -- Kazuo Ishiguro

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