Died Quotes - Page 2

• The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

  Tom Holt

  Definitions, Immortal

  "Ye Gods!". Book by Tom Holt, 1992.

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• Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

  Jim Gerlach

  Chains That Bind, Bravery, Independence

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• Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Country, Kindness, Promise

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• Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

  Indira Gandhi

  Strong, Blood, Independence

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• Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

  Jules Feiffer

  Jesus, Religion, Forgiving

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• I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

  Judy Garland

  Thinking, Peculiar, Make Sense

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• No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Ideas, Foolish, Born

  The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)

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• The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

  E. M. Forster

  Kings, Queens, Grief

  E. M. Forster (1954). “Aspects Of the Novel”

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• To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

  Ronald Fisher

  Examination, Experiments, Posts

  Presidential Address to the First Indian Statistical Congress, Sankhya 4, 14-17, 1938.

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• The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

  Ira Hayes

  Real, Hero, Firefighter

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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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• 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.

  Doc Hastings

  Memorial Day, Military, Patriotic

  FaceBook post by Doc Hastings from May 28, 2013

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• As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.

  T. D. Jakes

  Christian, Smell, Long

  "Interview: Bishop TD Jakes on Hell, Politics, Film Projects". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. June 19, 2011.

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• The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Mean, People

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview With Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

  Kesha

  Thinking, Clothes, Teeth

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

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• My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

  Amber Heard

  Friendship, Best Friend, Blow

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• The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle - December 25.

  David Icke

  Christian, Jesus, Book

  Interview, metro.co.uk. July 16, 2002.

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• I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

  T. D. Jakes

  Father, Real, Church

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• You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Jeans, People, Hendrix

  "Bon Jovi tells how his wife and kids saved him when the crazy lifestyle got too much". Interview with Billy Sloan, www.dailyrecord.co.uk. November 7, 2010.

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• One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.

  Michio Kaku

  Talking, Years, Names

  Interview With Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 9, 2009.

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• I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.

  Gail Collins

  Mother, Home, Pride

  "Marriage Security and Insecurities". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 27, 2013.

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• That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'

  Phil Collins

  Air, Tonight, Headstone

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• If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.

  Phil Collins

  Interesting, Albums, Would Be

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• Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn't care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011.

  Ray Comfort

  Cancer, Thinking, Smoking

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• Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Life, Great Love, Red

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.71

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