Mother Died Quotes - Page 3

• I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.

  Mira Grant

  Mother, Kids, Son

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• My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, and this music just took me on a different road.

  Ice T

  Mother, Father, Different

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• I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Mother, Thinking, Logic

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

  Michel'le

  Mother, Months, Three

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when I was 19 and my mother died, and one was when I was 31 and my first child was born. And that sort of gave me a kind of rebirth that I think has been invaluable to me as a novelist, in terms of seeing the world anew.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline.

  Khushwant Singh

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

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• I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.

  Sophia Loren

  Mother, Thinking, Unbearable

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• When my grandmother died, I realized that even if I had millions of dollars, I couldn't find her anywhere on earth. My next thought was that I would die. I looked at my life and thought, "I'm afraid to die." I concluded that whether I was afraid or not, I would die. It was one of the most important crossroads in my life, once I realized that no matter what, I would do this thing, the next step was to think, "If I am going to do the most difficult and frightening thing - dying - is it possible that I could do some difficult and impossible things that are good?"

  Maya Angelou

  Grandmother, Thinking, Impossible Things

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• I was always interested in drawing and painting. I enrolled in college to study painting. But I didn't have any livelihood when I graduated. My mother died very young, and I didn't have any home, so I had to find a way to earn a living. It seemed to me that photography - to the great disappointment, I have to say, of my painting teacher - could offer that. So I went and did a degree in photography, and then after that I could go out and get paid for work. For portraits, things like that.

  Stuart Franklin

  Photography, Mother, Teacher

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.

  Stuart Franklin

  Photography, Mother, Reading

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

  Laura Mullen

  Mother, Discovery, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My mother died of ovarian cancer; I support organizations that raise awareness of this silent killer. Women's shelters - Jenesse Center in L.A. and the Primo Center in Chicago. Kovler Diabetes Center in Chicago.

  Regina Taylor

  Mother, Cancer, Organization

  "Golden Globe and NAACP Image Award winner Regina Taylor: Living a creative life". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Before my mother died, she made me promise to do everything that could be done to make sure my father was not left alone after she was gone.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Mother, Father, Promise

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• The sense of being Jewish never left me, but when my grandmother died, I rebelled against Judaism as I knew it then, which was Orthodox. I saw the rituals, a lot of them, as very male, for a long time.

  Marge Piercy

  Grandmother, Long, Males

  "Fighting Words". Interview with Johnette Rodriguez, margepiercy.com. September 27, 2002.

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• I was raised by drag queens, practically ... my mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. A lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen, who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend's houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Mother, Baby, Queens

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• My grandmother died of natural causes. Or as my family calls it murdered by the lord.

  Dane Cook

  Grandmother, Causes, My Family

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• Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything."

  Langston Hughes

  Grandmother, Stories, Taught

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes”, p.40, University of Missouri Press

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• I was not raised with religion, and I had no faith before my mother died. On the other hand, when she died, I did not immediately feel she was "gone." I don't believe she is in something like heaven, but I also feel that we don't understand much about the nature of the universe. So I hold on to that uncertainty, at times.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Believe, Hands

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• [My mother] died a few months ago, and when she was dead I kissed her lips. For me it was a beautiful moment. From then on I started living with her, asking her from time to time if she was alright, if she was pleased with me. But these things are far greater than photography, and I probably shouldn't be speaking about them.

  Mario Giacomelli

  Beautiful, Photography, Mother

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• Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

  Mike Gordon

  Girlfriend, Grandmother, Years

  Interview with Brian Feller, phish.net. April 18, 1993.

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• My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.

  Will Rogers

  Mother, Years, Understanding

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• I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother died ten years ago. My son was very sick as an infant. Eventually, I have attempted to transform this pain into art, to make meaning out of it.

  Dani Shapiro

  Mother, Art, Pain

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love, Death, Mother

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• [After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I went to stay at my grandparents'' house, and even, I was stunned to discover, during the first few months of my freshman year at college. It was not really the home my mother had made that I yearned for. But I was sick in my soul for that greater meaning of home that we understand most purely when we are children, when it is a metaphor for all possible feelings of security, of safety, of what is predictable, gentle, and good in life.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Children, Home

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• Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Mother, Yesterday

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.2, Hamilton Books

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