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  • The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.

    Football   Mother   Two  
  • I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

    "EXCLUSIVE: Peaches Geldof talks to ELLE". ELLE Interview, www.elle.com. March 11, 2012.
  • In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.

    Mother   Years   Age  
    William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.21
  • When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

    Mother   Father   Sleep  
    'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Chimney Sweeper'
  • Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

    Interview with Brian Feller, phish.net. April 18, 1993.
  • After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.

    Mother   Book   Son  
  • Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only imagine the agony she felt. And Eleanor Roosevelt really wanted to make her mother happier, and - and to make her live, you know, make her want to live. And there's something about, you know, when your mother dies, this sense of abandonment. I think Eleanor Roosevelt had a lifelong fear of abandonment and sense of abandonment after her parents' death.

    Mother   Wall   Thinking  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I’m sick of being everyone’s regret. My mother died in shame because she’d borne me. My father and brother despise me and my sister can barely look me in the eye! (Acheron)

    Mother   Brother   Regret  
    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.235, Macmillan
  • I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when I was 19 and my mother died, and one was when I was 31 and my first child was born. And that sort of gave me a kind of rebirth that I think has been invaluable to me as a novelist, in terms of seeing the world anew.

  • My grandmother died of natural causes. Or as my family calls it murdered by the lord.

  • I was raised by drag queens, practically ... my mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. A lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen, who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend's houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men.

    Mother   Baby   Queens  
  • I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories.

    Mother   Memories   Ocean  
  • My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.

  • I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.

    Mother   Thinking   Logic  
    "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.
  • I was not raised with religion, and I had no faith before my mother died. On the other hand, when she died, I did not immediately feel she was "gone." I don't believe she is in something like heaven, but I also feel that we don't understand much about the nature of the universe. So I hold on to that uncertainty, at times.

    Mother   Believe   Hands  
    "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.
  • Before my mother died, she made me promise to do everything that could be done to make sure my father was not left alone after she was gone.

    Mother   Father   Promise  
  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.

    Naomi Shihab Nye (2011). “There Is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories”, p.6, Harper Collins
  • When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.

    Mother   Children   Pain  
    "Part 2: “Keeping Hope Alive” in Somalia with Hawa Abdi and Daughter Deqo Mohamed". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 16, 2013.
  • When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.

    Mother   Father   Sorrow  
    Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.367, Simon and Schuster
  • When my grandmother died, I realized that even if I had millions of dollars, I couldn't find her anywhere on earth. My next thought was that I would die. I looked at my life and thought, "I'm afraid to die." I concluded that whether I was afraid or not, I would die. It was one of the most important crossroads in my life, once I realized that no matter what, I would do this thing, the next step was to think, "If I am going to do the most difficult and frightening thing - dying - is it possible that I could do some difficult and impossible things that are good?"

    Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.
  • My mother died yesterday, yesterday many years ago. You know, what amazed me the most the next day after her leaving was the fact that the buildings were still in place, the streets were still full of cars running, full of people who were walking, seemingly ignoring that my whole world has just disappeared." (rough translation)

    Mother   Running   Years  
  • After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

    Mother   Night   Air  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.

    Mother   Kids   Son  
  • [My mother] died a few months ago, and when she was dead I kissed her lips. For me it was a beautiful moment. From then on I started living with her, asking her from time to time if she was alright, if she was pleased with me. But these things are far greater than photography, and I probably shouldn't be speaking about them.

  • I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.

    Sister   Mother   Care  
    Lizzie Borden, Albert Mason, Caleb Blodgett, Justin Dewey, Massachusetts. Superior Court (Bristol County) (1937). “Trial of Lizzie Borden”
  • Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.

    Mother   Memories   Years  
  • Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.

    Mother   Heart   Thinking  
    Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster
  • My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

    Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.14, Penguin
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