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“My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.”

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Author:Desmond Llewelyn

“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.”

“Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.”

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Author:Thomas G. Stemberg

“I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.”

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Author:Sonia Braga

“What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.”

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Book:Hamlet: Revised Edition

Source: Hamlet: Revised Edition

“When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.”

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Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“My father died and left me his blessing and his business. His blessing brought no money into my pocket, and as to his business, it soon deserted me, for I was busy writing poetry, and could not attend to law, and my clients, though they had great respect for my talents, had no faith in a poetical attorney.”

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Book:The Complete Travel Sketches and Memoirs of Washington Irving: Tales of The Alhambra, Abbotsford and Newstead Abby, A Tour on the Prairies & Tales of a Traveler: Autobiographical Writings, Travel Reports, Essays and Notes of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle and Old Christmas

Source: The Complete Travel Sketches and Memoirs of Washington Irving: Tales of The Alhambra, Abbotsford and Newstead Abby, A Tour on the Prairies & Tales of a Traveler: Autobiographical Writings, Travel Reports, Essays and Notes of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle and Old Christmas

“My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.”

“Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Make-A-Wish. We want to make the world a better place for innocent children. I cried my heart out when my father died from cancer. I wish I was smarter, wiser like a doctor, to save these children from dying.”

“When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.”

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Author:Criss Angel

“At some level it's still hard for me to admit that my father died. I can talk about it and around it, but those two words. 'He died.' What can that possibly mean? That I won't get to hear his voice again?”

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Book:Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant

Source: Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant

“My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.”

“There's no greater feeling than people coming up to me and going, "Man, my father was dying, and we went to see Rush Hour, and it was the greatest night we had in years together. We sat in that theater and we laughed for two hours without stopping. That was just a great memory that I had before my father died."”

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Author:Brett Ratner