Father Died Quotes - Page 3

• Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Father, Years, Parent

  Michel Houellebecq (2003). “Platform: A Novel”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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

  Terence Davies

  Father, Psychotic, My Father Died

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• My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

  Natasha Josefowitz

  Fathers Day, Daughter, Dad

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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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• My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  War, Writing, Profound

  "Half of a Yellow Sun". Interview with Rina Palta, www.motherjones.com. October 24, 2006.

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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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• What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Father, Men

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.335, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Father, Please Me, People

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• This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our fathers and grandfathers died in this battle [in Normandy], yes. I understand that the Americans and the British and French celebrate one of the greatest and most important military victories in history. And I understand this. I don't see a reasonable place for the Germans. We watch everything on the television with compassion and sympathy.

  Manfred Rommel

  Brother, Father, Military

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back to California, and I think a couple of weeks after that funeral wrote that song thinking about him, his life.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Song, Prayer, Couple

  Source: www.npr.org

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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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• 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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• You have to understand that I'm a child of the second generation, which means my mother was in Auschwitz, and the aunt of my mother was in Auschwitz with her; my grandmother and grandfather died there. So yes. All of those gestures they work for you, or for them, to fill their time or not feel their anxiety. But the child feels everything. It doesn't make the child secure. You put the child in a jail.

  Chantal Akerman

  Mother, Children, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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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• I didn't know my grandparents. They were - my grandfather - my maternal grandfather died when I was five. I have very little memory of him. All my other grandparents were dead by the time I was of any age to remember anything.

  Robert Barry

  Memories, Grandparent, Grandfather

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

  Larry King

  New York, Father, Years

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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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• I grew up with sentiments such as, "Do what will make you happy, troubles are God's redirections that something good will come from, and that material things are to make the world a better place" and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.

  Bernie Siegel

  Father, Kids, World

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.

  Joel Osteen

  Father, Simple, Church

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there was an anthology without any names attached to it and I read a poem called Spellbound and I somehow attached it to my grandfather's death and I thought my grandfather had written it.

  Edward Hirsch

  Book, Names, House

  Source: bigthink.com

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