“I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.” KnowsYearsLittlesPersonsLastsMy OwnCompanyBuildingSonYeahMy SonTransitionLast YearGrooveHappy Person 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'm the son of a newsman, I grew up around news, so I can understand the issue, which is that papers are losing subscribers and they're getting less and less outlets... it's a tricky thing. You're going to have to sell papers. The problem is, there's so little reporting anymore.” LittlesI CanProblemIssuesSonGrewPaperGrew UpNewsLosingSellsPapersOutletsTricky Author:George Clooney
“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. LEWIS, The Four Loves Life is short. Eternity is long. BENTLEY LITTLE, His Father's Son What we do now echoes in eternity.” LittlesLongLife IsFatherFourSonEternalEternityLove LifeEchoesLife Is ShortBentley Author:Marcus Aurelius
“William 'Big Bill' Rockefeller, who sold cancer 'cures' from a medicine wagon, taught him to leap into his arms from a tall chair. One time his father held his arms out to catch him but pulled them away as little John jumped. The fallen son was told sternly, 'Remember, never trust anyone completely, not even me.'” LittlesBigsRememberFatherTaughtSonArmsBillsMedicineCancerCuresFallenChairsLeapTallOne TimeNever TrustWagonsNever Trust AnyoneCancer Cure Author:Jim Marrs
“Marx's father became a Christian when Marx was a little boy, and some, at least, of the dogmas he must have then accepted seem to have born fruit in his son's psychology.” LittlesSeemsChristianFatherBornBoysPsychologySonFruitAcceptedDogmaLittle Boys Book:Unpopular Essays Source: Unpopular Essays
“It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.” WorldLittlesSelfFactsMotherReadingSpaceBoysGoneToo MuchCollegeSonPrayingBlessingLettersFilledWideBackgroundsShirtsButtonsAttendingMaternityOld Letters Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)