My Father Died Quotes - Page 3

• My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

  Robert Winston

  Father, Thinking, Doe

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• I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mom, Mother, Father

  "NBC's Guthrie Chats With Sotomayor About Her Love Life in Softball Interview". Interview with Savannah Guthrie, www.newsbusters.org. January 15, 2013.

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• I got my very last tattoo after my father died. I'm not getting anymore; otherwise I'll end up like Mike Tyson with a tattoo on my face.

  Sean William Scott

  Tattoo, Father, Lasts

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• It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Father, Sadness, Excuse

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• In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

  Jessica Lange

  Children, Father, Kids

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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 was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter.

  Drew Carey

  Funny, Mom, Father

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• If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me

  Charlie Hunnam

  Mother, Father, Boys

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• My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

  Richard E. Grant

  Regret, Father, Drama

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• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  Sam Houston

  Father, School, Eight

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• My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Sweet, Father

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.

  George Kennedy

  Father, Years, Say Anything

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.

  Goodman Ace

  Father, Cancer, Teenager

  The New Yorker (1977)

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• When my father died of AIDS, I knew I had to do everything in my power to prevent others from going through what he endured. I support AmFAR which provides funds for cutting edge AIDS research so we can find a vaccine and a cure.

  Natasha Richardson

  Father, Cutting, Vaccines

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• At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my father died; my response to his death was atheistic.

  Sergei Prokofiev

  Father, Home, Agendas

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• But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

  Javier Bardem

  Father, Believe, Catholic

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• My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

  Richard Ford

  Father, Arms, Exploding

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• My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

  George Weah

  Christmas, Father, Grandmother

  "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

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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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• 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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• When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

  Criss Angel

  Dad, Father, Profound

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• At some level it's still hard for me to admit that my father died. I can talk about it and around it, but those two words. 'He died.' What can that possibly mean? That I won't get to hear his voice again?

  Jennifer Grant

  Father, Mean, Two

  Jennifer Grant (2011). “Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant”, p.4, Knopf

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• My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Father, Adventure, Twenties

  "The Coming Race" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ch. 1, 1870.

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• There's no greater feeling than people coming up to me and going, "Man, my father was dying, and we went to see Rush Hour, and it was the greatest night we had in years together. We sat in that theater and we laughed for two hours without stopping. That was just a great memory that I had before my father died."

  Brett Ratner

  Memories, Father, Night

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• Most of the bio men on earth were born to women, so it's pretty ordinary! But I think because I had come from a matriarchy - my father died when I was young, and I only have a sister and a stepsister - when I told my mom and my sister that I was having a boy, they were both like, "That does not compute within our family relation!" It was like, "Girls only here!" Now that all seems very strange to me.

  Maggie Nelson

  Girl, Mom, Father

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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