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“The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.”

“My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes - - eyes that had not opened for many, many days - - and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.”

Knows Moments Eye Lasts Mother Father Saws Arms Disease Stealing Conquer His Eyes Alzheimer Alzheimer's Never Fear

Author:Patti Davis

“Ever since our first fathers by infection took this morbum sathanicum, this devilish disease, pride, of the devil, such tinder is our nature, that every little spark sets us on fire; our nature hath grown so light, that every little thing puffeth us up, and sets us aloft in our altitudes presently.”

Firsts Littles Light Father Fire Pride Disease Devil Little Things Sparks Infection Devilish Tinder

Book:Ninety-Six Sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, Sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester, Vol. V

Source: Ninety-Six Sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, Sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester, Vol. V

“In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.”

“Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.”

Ifs Father Cities Disease Hot Vices Brands Iron Cheeks Threatened

Author:Peter B. Lewis

“I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.”

Father Disease Alcoholics Deserted

Author:Malachy McCourt

“The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.”

People Firsts Father Poverty Millions Ignorance Disease Tasks India Independence Priorities Founding Unfinished

Author:Manmohan Singh

“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

“Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.”

Book:The Dead Girls' Dance

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

“If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.”

Ifs Body Next Father Worry Lovers Disease Strikes

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.”

Knows Needs Said Reason Father Ignorance Disease Ignorant Reason Why

Author:Orson Scott Card

“Knowledge is the key to stopping the spread of AIDS. Yet millions of children are missing an education. Missing their teachers who have died of the disease. Missing from class as they stay home to care for their dying mothers and fathers. Children are missing your support. United for Children. Unite against AIDS.”

Children Home Care Mother Father United Class Millions Support Teacher Dying Missing Keys Disease Died Spread Aids Stopping Mother And Father Father Child Children Dying

Author:Susan Sarandon

“Hear me people: We have now to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.”

People Mind Firsts May Made Enough Father Poor Deals Race Break Support Economy Rich Mets Disease Weak Possession Soil Our Father Tithe Overbearing

Author:Sitting Bull

“I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.”

Trying Heart Dies Father Disease Heart Disease

Author:Robert Jarvik

“By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness and mental disorders. In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.”

“My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.”

Mother Father Tears Dad Disease Died Caught Cures

Author:Victor Borge