Passed Away Quotes - Page 4

• When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

  Christine Lagarde

  Father, Perspective, Birth

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• My father had a lot to do with me thinking about acting, though he never saw me act. He passed away probably - he passed away as I was doing my first play, but I just think being exposed to it and being around it. It wasn't something that I ever thought I couldn't do because I grew up around it.

  Mahershala Ali

  Father, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You're always trying to impress your parents regardless of how old you are. And when they're gone, there's nobody to impress. But I think my parents would be proud of me. My father has been gone for 30 years, and by the time he passed away, I was a lawyer. I hope he would be impressed.

  Raymond Kelly

  Father, Thinking, Parent

  Source: playboysfw.kinja.com

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• The influence of the Gang of Four should not be underrated, but it should be noted that 97 or 98 per cent of the population hate them intensely for their crimes. This was shown by the mass movement against the Gang of Four which erupted at Tiananmen Square on April 5, 1976, when the Gang were still riding high, Chairman Mao was critically ill and Premier Zhou had passed away.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Hate, Squares, Riding

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about cinema in the print media and on television. It has been replaced by celebrity news. So we are speaking in his spirit always.

  Werner Herzog

  Print Media, Missing, Soldier

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the point of collecting. It's certainly a [better] quality of life you have living with [these] works, but [I] also [value] the relationship we have with the artists.

  Patrick Seguin

  Artist, Past, Quality

  "A Collector’s Carte Blanche". Interview With Nate Lowman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2016.

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• In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent Prouvé, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back.

  Patrick Seguin

  Furniture, Architecture, Percent

  "A Collector’s Carte Blanche". Interview with Nate Lowman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2016.

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• On social media and [in person] I hear stories of how a song like "Home" helps. Whether it's a guy overseas coping with missing his family or something deeper and terribly dramatic. Somebody once told me that ["Home"] is the song they listen to when they go to the cemetery to visit their child that passed away. It gives them hope. At the end of the day, that's all what I want to offer people.

  Michael Buble

  Song, Children, Home

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• One of my favorite people I got to meet was my childhood idol, Vincent Price. I got to not only meet him, but become friendly with him before he passed away.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Idols, People, Childhood

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• Enron's president, Ken Lay, passed away last week. So, I guess even God lost money on that Enron deal. I believe the official cause of death was listed as "karma." The family asked in lieu of flowers, please send some elderly retiree's entire life savings.

  Jay Leno

  Karma, Believe, Flower

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• I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!

  Meg Cabot

  Teacher, Dad, Regret

  Interview with Joyce Lamb, www.azcentral.com. June 30, 2013.

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• My grandmother, she passed away at Christmas time. So now, I have this built in sadness, you know, every holiday. 'Cause I'm plagued with the thought of, you know, what she would have given me. What didn't I get to open this year?

  Laura Kightlinger

  Holiday, Sadness, Grandmother

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• My mother got down sick in 53 and she lived with me, an invalid, until she passed away in 1961. And during the time she was staying with me sometime I would be worked so hard I couldn't sleep at night.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Mother, Sleep, Night

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• She [my mother] had a will power that was undeniable. She went on to be with the Lord, she passed away but she lives through me.

  Cory Hardrict

  Mother, Lord, Will Power

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• My father lived with me the last five years of his life and passed away of Alzheimer's, and at that point he was saying to anyone who would listen, "We all hated the war in Vietnam." Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.

  Bill Ayers

  Father, Hate, War

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My parents passed away when I was a teenager, so I had to learn different survival techniques, I think, in comedy. You know, using comedy as a pressure release, as a release valve in life really kept my sanity.

  Jeff Ross

  Teenager, Thinking, Parent

  Source: www.npr.org

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• To see the way that [my mother] held our family together after my dad passed away, and then went to college after my youngest sister went off to school on her own, and mom went and got a college degree in her 60s is just incredibly inspiring. So, I would just say my folks.

  Mike Pence

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• I am the most proud of is the show called Cracker and I think it only lasted a season or two. It was with a gentleman named Robert Pastorelli who has since passed away, but it was based on an English television show that was really popular.

  Boti Bliss

  Thinking, Two, Gentleman

  Source: actionflickchick.com

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• My belief also is that Marilyn Monroe passed away long before she should have left us.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Should Have, Long, Belief

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I hadn't performed or been in the public eye for about 16 years. When my husband passed away, I was obliged to go back to work to take care of our kids. I also wanted to do a record in memory of him. So we did Gone Again. During that process, I had to be photographed and had to go back to doing articles and interviews.

  Patti Smith

  Memories, Husband, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like "upstage" and "downstage," all those technical things about the art of what I do - how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities.

  Erykah Badu

  Mother, Art, Couple

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• There's a lot that I haven't put up there since my husband passed away because then it would be grief everyday. I have to fight within myself at times and ask, 'how do I go through the grief and find a light, even a glimmer of it?'

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Husband, Grief, Fighting

  Source: time.com

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• This album [Give the People What They Want] has almost been in the making for almost three years now. When we first began on it, my mother was sick. When she passed away, I got on stage and played that night. The music helped take me away.

  Sharon Jones

  Mother, Night, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I love it there, especially that island [Grand Exuma], so I've been there a lot over the twenty years.

  Pam Houston

  Islands, Years, Twenties

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.

  Dhani Harrison

  Father, Healing, Emotional

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

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