Mother Died Quotes

• If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.

  J. K. Rowling

  Potters, Magic Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort

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• Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.

  Frank Lampard

  Mother, Died, Chelsea

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• My mother died yesterday, yesterday many years ago. You know, what amazed me the most the next day after her leaving was the fact that the buildings were still in place, the streets were still full of cars running, full of people who were walking, seemingly ignoring that my whole world has just disappeared." (rough translation)

  Marc Levy

  Mother, Running, Years

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• My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.

  George J. Mitchell

  Mother, Father, Sibling

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• I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin

  Tobe Hooper

  Mother, Baby, Names

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• When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.

  Margaret Mahy

  Friendship, Mother, Children

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• Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.

  Marina Lewycka

  Mother, Memories, Father

  "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". Book by Marina Lewycka, March 31, 2005.

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• When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Mother, Years, Literature

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.17, Prestwick House Inc

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• I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.

  Lizzie Borden

  Sister, Mother, Care

  Lizzie Borden, Albert Mason, Caleb Blodgett, Justin Dewey, Massachusetts. Superior Court (Bristol County) (1937). “Trial of Lizzie Borden”

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• THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Mother, Autumn, Events

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.23, Anza Publishing

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• I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why it's important for the planet's survival along with compassion for animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you'll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days

  Linda Blair

  Mother, Cancer, Reading

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• My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Mother, Giving, Age

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• Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Mother, Young, Died

  Naomi Shihab Nye (2011). “There Is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

  Mara Wilson

  Mother, Acting, Young

  "Atheism, 9/11 Conspiracy Theories, and Sheeple with Mara Wilson and Max Reuben". Interview with Zachary Stewart, www.theatermania.com. August 7, 2013.

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• I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mother, Fashion, Book

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• If he even survives." She shivered, and Amon put his arm around her, drawing her into his steady warmth. "It's that bad?" Raisa nodded. "He looked...he looked awful, Amon. Willo doesn't know if he'll...She's worried about him. My mother died, and I never got to tell her that I loved her, that I finally understood - just a little anyway. If Han dies too, I don't know what I'll do.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Mother, Drawing, Arms

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• Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

  Anne Lamott

  Cute, Mother, Giving Up

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• My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.

  Doris Lessing

  Mother, Strokes, Seventies

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• Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.

  Christian Louboutin

  Mother, Memories, Years

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• I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

  Gary Numan

  Crush, Mother, Dad

  "Gary Numan: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• It's interesting to talk to Bernie [Sanders] about his life and growing up, you know, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mother died at a very early age. He was young then. And, you know, I think that experience really shaped him.

  Tad Devine

  Mother, Growing Up, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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• When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.

  Amy Hempel

  Mother, Father, Sorrow

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

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• Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.

  Amy Hempel

  Mother, Heart, Thinking

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only imagine the agony she felt. And Eleanor Roosevelt really wanted to make her mother happier, and - and to make her live, you know, make her want to live. And there's something about, you know, when your mother dies, this sense of abandonment. I think Eleanor Roosevelt had a lifelong fear of abandonment and sense of abandonment after her parents' death.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mother, Wall, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I’m sick of being everyone’s regret. My mother died in shame because she’d borne me. My father and brother despise me and my sister can barely look me in the eye! (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Brother, Regret

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.235, Macmillan

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