My Father Died Quotes - Page 2

• The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.

  Monica Potter

  Father, Real, Heart

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• That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I loved those old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. The Scarlet Claw was one of my faves. And I loved all the Halloween's and that film about the haunted house... Burnt Offerings, with Oliver Reed. Every birthday party was a slumber party and we'd watch horror films.

  Cate Blanchett

  Father, Halloween, Party

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• My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

  Philip Levine

  Strong, Father, Grew

  Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Mother, Couple, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did not begin to talk about peace when my father died nor did I begin to criticize him at that point - I did this when I had him in front of me, I was one of his harshest criticizers and I never applauded his violence.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Violence, Criticize

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• My father died at 42, of a heart attack. My mother was 32 then. She never wanted to be a victim. And that really resonated as a nine-year-old child. And one of the most revealing things was, very soon after my father died - he was in real estate and he owned some modest buildings - they came to my mother, the men that worked for him, and they said, "You don't have to worry. We will run the business and we will take care of you." And my mother said, "No, you won't. You will teach me how to run the business and I will take care of it and my children."

  Sherry Lansing

  Mother, Running, Children

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I met a guy who had the same theory and wrote a book about it. His name is Walter C. Wright Jr. His book is called Gravity Is a Push. I wrote to him and told him about my father, and he said he wished he'd met him. My father died quite a while ago.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, Book, Names

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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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 was very attached to my family when my father died. I was 19. I was about to go live with my father right when he died, so it was very intense.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Father, Intense, My Family

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• The day my father died seemed longer than my entire childhood. The day I felt my first success seemed fleeting, hour-long, not long enough perhaps. I wondered where it went. Even the cycle of time confounds me. I work till dark, until sunrise on most days and fall asleep as the world awakens to light. My friends call me an owl. I like to think of myself as Batman – the prince of darkness.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Father, Fall, Dark

  "SHAHRUKH KHAN's speech at Yale: I can’t fix my age – am I 45 or 15?". www.bollywoodlife.com. April 16, 2012.

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• After my father died, we began to live. He was psychotic. He really was terrifying.

  Terence Davies

  Father, Psychotic, Father Died

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• I was 16 when my father died, and I had a choice to come back and live in his house or I'd stay at the school. But I felt if my father wanted me to go to that school when I was 5, there must have been a reason - and I understood that reason when I was a teenager, because that school became the only place where I was safe.

  Rula Jebreal

  Father, Teenager, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to play golf more? Why didn't I spend more time with him? But when you're off trying to get the brass ring, you forget and overlook those little things. It gives you a certain amount of regret later on, but there's nothing you can do about it. So you just forge on.

  Clint Eastwood

  Regret, Father, Golf

  "Clint Eastwood: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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• I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

  John Nettles

  Father, Party, Fall

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I remember when I was 26. My father died when I was young and my mother didn't have a lot of money, so I thought, 'I want to own a flat by the time I'm 26.' So I worked towards that, literally trying to scrimp and save. But sometimes those plans don't go as you expect.

  Cate Blanchett

  Mother, Father, Trying

  "Cate Blanchett Talks Red Carpet Beauty and Dates With Destiny". Interview with Crystal Meers, www.elle.com. March 1, 2016.

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• My father died right after the movie Rain Man was released. He got to see it, then literally the day before he died, he asked Mama to take him to see it one more time - because he knew he was declining. Tom's assistant at the time told him my father died, and he wrote me a very personal note. I haven't seen him since, but you can't say anything bad about Tom Cruise to me, because anybody who takes the time to do that is very special.

  Beth Grant

  Father, Rain, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.

  John Galliano

  Father, Gay, Honest

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• IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

  Edward Carpenter

  Dream, Father, Land

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• Land where my fathers died,
  Land of the pilgrims' pride,
  From every mountainside
  Let freedom ring!

  Samuel Francis Smith

  Father, 4th Of July, Pride

  "America" (song) (1831) See Archibald Carey 1; Martin Luther King 14

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• There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. There's fennel for you, and columbines: — there 's rue for you; and here's some for me: — we may call it, herb of grace o'Sundays: — you may wear your rue with a difference. — There's a daisy: — I would give you some violets; but they withered all, when my father died: — They say, he made a good end.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Father, Sunday

  "The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare".

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• In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now. As we settle in, he pulls my head down to use his arm as a pillow; the other rests protectively over me even when he goes to sleep. No one has held me like this in such a long time. Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Father, Sleep

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.392, Scholastic Inc.

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• Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Father, Safe

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.208, Scholastic UK

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• I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’ I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, War, Teaching

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?

  Kiran Desai

  Father, Crow, Rooftops

  FaceBook post by Kiran Desai from Jun 16, 2014

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• In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their families by selling their bodies. Had I been older when my father died, I might have been among them. Instead I learned to hunt.

  Suzanne Collins

  Father, Doors, Coins

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.635, Scholastic Inc.

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