Mother Died Quotes - Page 2

• My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Summer, Mother, Memories

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• I don't think I'm more politically-based as much as socially-based. My grandmother died on February 29th, and she kept all of my magazine and newspaper scraps, every interview. I've been in the newspapers since I was about 15 - not for rapping, but for real substantive stuff I was doing in the community, organizing around gang violence in the schools. So I had already made my grandma proud before I was on TV. I've always been who I am.

  Killer Mike

  Real, Rap, Grandma

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories.

  Arthur Golden

  Mother, Memories, Ocean

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• I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mother, Book, Long

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• When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

  William Blake

  Mother, Father, Sleep

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Chimney Sweeper'

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• 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.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Mother, Father, Parent

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• The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.

  Art Donovan

  Football, Mother, Two

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• When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Mother, Profound, Abandoned

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.384, Bantam

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• When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and Ive done so ever since.

  Stuart Rose

  Mother, Father, Lying

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• My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?

  Andrew Lo

  Mother, Cancer, Years

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• I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.

  Kate Atkinson

  Mother, Thinking, Would Be

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• I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.

  Donald Fagen

  Mother, Thinking, Talking

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• When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.

  Hawa Abdi

  Mother, Children, Pain

  "Part 2: “Keeping Hope Alive” in Somalia with Hawa Abdi and Daughter Deqo Mohamed". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 16, 2013.

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• When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

  Graham Kennedy

  Mother, Night, Air

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.

  Martha Wainwright

  Mother, Adults, Kind

  "Martha Wainwright On New Motherhood, And A Mother Lost". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. November 25, 2012.

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• Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.

  Larry Watson

  Death, Mother, Expression

  Larry Watson (2010). “Montana 1948: A Novel”, p.16, Milkweed Editions

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• Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

  Judy Davis

  Mother, Hurt, Memories

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• I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mother, Strong, Loss

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• My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the neighbors went away.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mother, Sadness, Cry

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• In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.

  William Lilly

  Mother, Years, Age

  William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.21

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• I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

  Peaches Geldof

  Mother, Remember, Blocked

  "EXCLUSIVE: Peaches Geldof talks to ELLE". ELLE Interview, www.elle.com. March 11, 2012.

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• But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Believe, Gone

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• My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Cancer, Breathing

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.14, Penguin

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• 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.

  Conrad Veidt

  Mother, Book, Son

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• I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.

  Bernie Mac

  Mother, Girlfriend, Brother

  Bernie Mac (2001). “I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is”, MTV Books

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