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“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.”

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Author:Farrah Fawcett

“The day my father died seemed longer than my entire childhood. The day I felt my first success seemed fleeting, hour-long, not long enough perhaps. I wondered where it went. Even the cycle of time confounds me. I work till dark, until sunrise on most days and fall asleep as the world awakens to light. My friends call me an owl. I like to think of myself as Batman – the prince of darkness.”

Thinking World Firsts Long Enough Light Fall Father Felt Hours Dark Darkness Childhood My Friends Died Cycles Call Me Sunrise Bats Fleeting Owl Father Died My Father Died

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.”

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Author:T. D. Jakes

“For me, everything is about Jesus and Father and the Holy Spirit, and relationships, and life is an adventure of faith lived one day at a time. Any aspirations, visions and dreams died a long time ago and I have absolutely no interest in resurrecting them (they would stink by now anyway). I have finally figured out that I have nothing to lose by living a life of faith. I know more joy every minute of every day than seems appropriate, but I love the wastefulness of my Father's grace and presence. For me, everything in my life that matters, is perfect!”

“I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother died ten years ago. My son was very sick as an infant. Eventually, I have attempted to transform this pain into art, to make meaning out of it.”

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Author:Dani Shapiro

“The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so fathers remarried and there would be a struggle between the children and the new wife, in terms of who would inherit what.”

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Author:Chris Weitz

“Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father.”

“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.”

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Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I remember when I was 26. My father died when I was young and my mother didn't have a lot of money, so I thought, 'I want to own a flat by the time I'm 26.' So I worked towards that, literally trying to scrimp and save. But sometimes those plans don't go as you expect.”

Want Trying Sometimes Remember Young Mother Father Plans Died Flats Lots Of Money Remember When Father Died My Father Died

Author:Cate Blanchett

“I grew up with sentiments such as, "Do what will make you happy, troubles are God's redirections that something good will come from, and that material things are to make the world a better place" and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.”

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Author:Bernie Siegel

“When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.”

Kind Desire Father Sound Church Simple Steps Died Pastor Step Up Father Died My Father Died

Author:Joel Osteen

“My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, and this music just took me on a different road.”

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Author:Ice T

“My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.”

Thinking Father My Own Tragedy Died Moved Alzheimer Alzheimer's

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“That's why the virgin birth never gets rid of the human mother. The story only gets rid of the human father. So Jesus' life was the life of God nurtured through the Virgin Mary. That's because the virgin birth died as a literal story as soon as we discovered that women had an egg cell. It's interesting to watch what the Roman church did about that.”

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Author:John Shelby Spong

“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.”

Years Two Father Half New York Died Nine Generosity Welfare Relief Two Years Father Died My Father Died

Author:Larry King

“My mom died when I was 22. My stepfather, who I loved like a father, pretty quickly got involved with another woman. Suddenly there was another woman sleeping in my mother's bed, and it was very difficult. Their relationship brought up my profound loss, and the truth was that my family would never be the same again.”

Mother Father Difficult Loss Sleep Mom Involved Bed My Family Died Profound My Mom Sleeping In Another Woman Stepfathers Mom Died

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“[Erwin Rommel] explained why in short words, what the two generals' message and then he explained his position and he gave some reason for his position. And then he said, "The ten minutes are over, and I have to leave now." Then my father said goodbye. He also told that us that in I think twenty or thirty minutes, I don't remember, "You will get a telephone call telling you that I have died of stroke."”

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Author:Manfred Rommel

“This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our fathers and grandfathers died in this battle [in Normandy], yes. I understand that the Americans and the British and French celebrate one of the greatest and most important military victories in history. And I understand this. I don't see a reasonable place for the Germans. We watch everything on the television with compassion and sympathy.”

“I met a guy who had the same theory and wrote a book about it. His name is Walter C. Wright Jr. His book is called Gravity Is a Push. I wrote to him and told him about my father, and he said he wished he'd met him. My father died quite a while ago.”

Said Book Guy Father Names Theory Mets Died Gravity Father Died My Father Died

Author:Paul Laffoley

“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.”

Thinking Long Mother Father Parent Secret Discipline Died Glasses Longevity Whisky Father Died Mother Died

Author:Khushwant Singh

“The episode of The Fresh Prince in Bel-Air when Will Smith's father disses him. That's sadder than when Mufasa died.”

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Author:Berhan Ahmed

“My father deprived me of any truths about himself. He died without ever letting me know who he truly was. I only knew his facades, basically. And it breaks my heart that he never trusted me enough to tell me the truth.”

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Author:Joshua Mohr

“My father was married to mother 'til the day he died, for over 64 years. He's why I kept trying to get the marriage thing right. All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.”

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Author:Steve Harvey

“I did not begin to talk about peace when my father died nor did I begin to criticize him at that point - I did this when I had him in front of me, I was one of his harshest criticizers and I never applauded his violence.”

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Author:Juan Pablo Escobar

“I was talking to my father via phone from my hotel room when he said "I will call you right back" before he hung up. 10 minutes pass and the phone rings again. I thought it was him but it was a journalist telling me my father had died.”

Said Father Rooms Talking Minutes Died Phones Rings Journalist Hotel Hung Hotel Rooms

Author:Juan Pablo Escobar

“My mom and my real father divorced before I was one. My mom and my stepfather divorced when I was in high school. Then she fell in love with a guy, and the guy died. That was a rough time. She has handled adversity well. That's where I got my work ethic. So my mother's where I got my love of music, but my father's where I got my athletic ability. And my hair loss. And my love of women.”

“Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.”

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Author:Leonard Cohen

“My father died at 42, of a heart attack. My mother was 32 then. She never wanted to be a victim. And that really resonated as a nine-year-old child. And one of the most revealing things was, very soon after my father died - he was in real estate and he owned some modest buildings - they came to my mother, the men that worked for him, and they said, "You don't have to worry. We will run the business and we will take care of you." And my mother said, "No, you won't. You will teach me how to run the business and I will take care of it and my children."”

“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.”

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Author:Jessica Lange

“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.”

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Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.”

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Author:Imelda Marcos

“While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.”

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Author:Bill Murray

“I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.”

Way Heart Film Father Felt Issues My Heart Died Swimming Fitting Unresolved Issues

Author:Gary Oldman

“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.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“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.”

Ends Lasts Faces Father Died Tattoo Mike Tyson Father Died My Father Died Like Mike

Author:Sean William Scott

“My dad died of a stroke.”

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Author:William Shatner

“Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.”

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Author:Charlie Sheen

“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.”

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Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“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.”

Men Years Father Simple Honest Years Ago Died Affection Honest Man

Author:David Ogden Stiers

“My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.”

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Author:Robert Winston

“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.”

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Author:Colm Toibin

“Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life...Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.”

“When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.”

Ifs Mother Father Social Sorrow Bigger Died Divorced Mother Died Widowhood

Book:The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

“Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.”

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Book:The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime

Source: The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime

“I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.”

Way Believe Moments Wanted Lasts Mother Purpose Father I Believe Cities Died Breaths Witness Chill Corpses Telegrams Morgues

Author:Mitch Albom

“Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. "It has not always been so," he said. "My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the village until he died. but after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which it was meant to preserve.”

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Author:Chinua Achebe

“They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.”

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Author:Arundhati Roy

“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.”

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Author:William Saroyan

“But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.”

Men Heart Father Too Much Meditation Failing My Heart One Day Disease Died Iron Not Afraid Greedy Tombstone Crabs

Book:gilt-edged bonds

Source: gilt-edged bonds

“I would encourage you to make your own investigation of the one whom, as He died, prayed for those who killed Him: 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do.' That is love's ultimate expression.”

Knows Father Expression Ultimate Died Forgiving Investigation

Author:Gary Chapman

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