Died Quotes - Page 34

• I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

  Jackson Browne

  Song, Fire, Ideas

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• I don't know who St. Valentine was, but I hope he died alone, surrounded by couples.

  Miranda Hart

  Couple, Valentine, Knows

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2018

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• When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

  Luther Vandross

  People, Weight, Lost

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• When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

  Peter Straub

  Book, Men, Blue

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• My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

  Arabella Weir

  Friendship, Mother, Cancer

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• My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Sweet, Father

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.

  George W. Bush

  Mom, War, Golf

  "Iraq Prompts President Bush to Give Up Golf". www.npr.org. May 16, 2008.

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• Some will remember an image of a fire or story or rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever. And I will carry this. It is the police shield of a man named George Howard who died at the World Trade Center trying to save others. It was given to me by his mom, Arlene, as a proud memorial to her son. It is my reminder of lives that ended and a task that does not end.

  George W. Bush

  Mom, Memories, Son

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Brother, Father

  "Baseball as I Have Known It". Book by Fred Lieb, p. 154, 1977.

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• I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf.

  George W. Bush

  Mom, Son, Golf

  "Iraq Prompts President Bush to Give Up Golf". "All Things Considered" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. May 16, 2008.

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• Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Grief, Believe

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• I almost died and everyday, I wish I did.

  Piolo Pascual

  Starting Over, Everyday, Wish

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• Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You understand that Christ died in your place on the cross, paying for your sins, fully forgiving you for all your wrongs. You are cleansed from guilt, and you are becoming a cleaner, healthier, more whole person.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Baptism, Forgiving, Guilt

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• Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

  Edward Abbey

  Sick, Alcohol, Mama

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejection—none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But it’s not much help to Truffaut.

  Woody Allen

  Art, Real, Nice

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• There are some who died because they were fasting, and they were crammed in tight.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Fasting

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• For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Heart, Past

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• Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.

  Thom Yorke

  Brother, Car, Twins

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• The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious

  Thom Yorke

  Loss, Blood, Names

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• One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard.

  Mike Tyson

  Morning, Men, Hands

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• It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Years, Two, Historical

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

  Jay McInerney

  Flower, Water, Cost

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• Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Years, House, Six

  "Has PETA Gone Too Far With Billboard Featuring Mayor Giuliani?". "Crossfire" with Bill Press and Mary Matalin, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2000.

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• It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Ambition, Effort

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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• In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

  Jacky Ickx

  Past, Two, Accepted

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