Top 1200 My Father Died Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.

What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually.

I have an uncle who lived to 101, and my father died at 95, so I have a second career ahead of me.

Did I become an entertainer because my father died and I wanted to be what he loved? I don't know.

My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with Bob Crosby's band - but he had to give up show business when his father died. He had to come back to Montgomery and take over the furniture store.

I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress - When by my dying did I ever grow less.

My father was right. Unfortunately, he died before I could tell him.

My father died when I was still in college, and it was sudden, and he was my beloved parent, and you just can't imagine what you life is going to be like.

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

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

Sadly, my father died before I graduated, so he didn't see any of the success at all.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.

My father died when I was 15, and my dad was a professional wrestler but as well as a national amateur champion at the University of Nebraska.

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

I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there.

When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.

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.

I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny.

My father gave me formal education in raagdari. He died in Lahore in 1964 when I was 13. I was in the tenth year of school, and my father's brother took me into the qawwali ensemble and started giving me formal education in qawwali.

The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was going to go to med school. My father's dream was that all of his kids become doctors. I realized in school I didn't like it. When he died, it was like a wake-up call. Life is too short to do something you don't want to do.

I didn't meet my father until he was 30, and he died nine months after that.

I was 16 when my father died, and I had a choice to come back and live in his house or I'd stay at the school. But I felt if my father wanted me to go to that school when I was 5, there must have been a reason - and I understood that reason when I was a teenager, because that school became the only place where I was safe.

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

I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

My father died in '97. But at least he lived until 93, so he saw my success.

I have 10 brothers and sisters. My mother raised us because my father died when I was 8.

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

I lost my father. He had diabetes and high BP and so he died of kidney failure.

Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father.

My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then there was my twin brother and my sister. We had two aunts as well, my father's sisters. But the immediate family consisted of my mother, my brother, my sister, and me.

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

If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

'Wayne of Gotham' is very much a father-and-son exploration. We've always seen Thomas Wayne through the years as this figure carved in marble; this perfect man. The only thing we really know about is that he died in that alley outside of a theater. But every son has to confront the reality of his father at some point in his life.

I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

My mother very bravely put me into rehab two weeks after my father died.

Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.

I have to be someone; maybe I'm just doing it for my father. When I made a movie, it had to be a hit because when he died, he was a flop director.

I remember that, before John Lennon died, everyone was saying that Rolling Stone couldn't do good reporting anymore. But when he died, they wrote this amazing issue, as they should have about Lennon. They did that when Elvis died, too.

My life in Greece influenced what I am. My father was in the left because he was against the king and his family, who had created a war against the Turks at the beginning of the last century to revive the Byzantine Empire. For three years, there was fighting, and all my father's friends died. So he hated the royal family.

Not having a father is big. You need guidance. I know, personally, when my father died, I needed guidance; I needed somebody to show me how to be a man, how to grow up, basically how to do the right thing.

I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the team, and my father had come to watch us. We went home, and my father died in front of me. Horribly, in about half an hour. He had a heart attack.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

My father had Parkinson's, though he actually died following a bicycle accident.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

My father and one of my grandfathers died very early, and female figures have been an influential part of my life.

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.

My father died when I was 28, and within two-and-a-half years of that, I lost my first son.

Over the decades people from all walks of life have told me, 'When your father died, so did my hope.'

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."

After my mother died, I learned that she'd had a scholarship to the University of Nebraska, but - in kind of a tradition that females don't do things like that - her father prevented her from going. She always said that she wasn't allowed to go to college, but until she died, I never knew that she'd had this scholarship.

I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.