“Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?” PeopleLittlesTwoWarKidsThreeBitsParentMemoriesPoorWifeThousandLittle BitDiedSoldierZeroEntitledPoor PeopleGround Zero Author:Carl Paladino
“I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled.” IfsWritingHeartLittlesRealHurtDarkLossRoomsSonBrokenMy HeartHappeningsDiedMy SonI Was Hurt Author:Neil Gaiman
“After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.” LittlesBookDoneMotherFoundSonProudDiedMother Died Author:Conrad Veidt
“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.” TryingLittlesMotherFatherGrewGrew UpDiedBusyOpen MindedFather DiedMy Father Died Author:Sonia Braga
“450,000 Iraqi children have died from starvation and lack of medicine as a result of our embargo. If you believe God loves little children - and hundreds of thousands more Iraqi children will die if there is war - you have to believe that God will judge us very harshly for this.” IfsBelieveChildrenLittlesWarDiesResultsJudgingDiedMedicineGods WillGod LoveBelieve In GodIf You BelieveStarvationEmbargo Author:Jane Elliott
“My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.” LittlesSaidSometimesFatherLostBirdDiedBankersWheelchairsStockbrokers Author:Roger Tory Peterson
“So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.” LittlesGamesCuttingStreetsBearsMarriedHumorousGardenDiedRoundsPopsRanApplesShopsBootsHeelsPieButtonsLeafsSoapCabbageGunpowderBarbersApple Pie Author:Samuel Foote
“Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone? Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own? Who will cry for the little boy? He cried himself to sleep. Who will cry for the little boy? He never had for keeps. Who will cry for the little boy? He walked the burning sand. Who will cry for the little boy? The boy inside the man. Who will cry for the little boy? Who knows well hurt and pain. Who will cry for the little boy? He died and died again. Who will cry for the little boy? A good boy he tried to be. Who will cry for the little boy, who cries inside of me?” KnowsMenWellsLittlesPainLostHurtSleepBoysCryHe ManDiedBurningSandAbandonedCriedLittle BoysAll AloneGood BoyHurt And Pain Author:Antwone Fisher