Day We Almost Died Quotes

#1. Robert Mapplethorpe asked me to write our story the day before he died. I had never written a book of nonfiction, and so it took me almost two decades to write that book.

Patti Smith

#2. How immense must be the force of life which turns a baby , who can just distinguish a great blot of blue and purple on a black background, into the child who thirteen years later can feel all that I felt on May 5th 1895 - now almost exactly to a day, forty-four years ago - when my mother died.

Virginia Woolf

#3. friendship was always contingent.

Margaret Atwood

#4. Peeta rolls his eyes at Haymitch. "She has no idea. The effect she can have."
He runs his fingernail along the wood grain in the table, refusing to look at me.

Suzanne Collins

#5. Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Obamacare is a perfect tool to crush free enterprise and force all Americans into a socialist health care system.

Marlin Stutzman

#7. I'm mortal. I could die any day." Brandon had almost killed her. Her parents had died young. Her grandfather would have died yesterday. "I'm Warrick Voclain. And you will stay by my side until the stars fall from the sky.

Erin Kellison

#8. I want to feel like I did when Christopher's arms held me away from the harms of the world. That was the last time I ever felt safe, and it was the day I almost died. I've been chasing that feeling for years.

Ginger Scott

#9. It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

Mark Twain

#10. You dance?"
"I think that might be overly optimistic," he said. "I do something. I'll try not to hurt you.

Robyn Carr

#11. The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.

Libba Bray

#12. Mare of the Stilts died the day she fell onto a lightning shield. Mareena, the lost Silver princess, died in the Bowl of Bones. And I don't know what new person opened her eyes on the Undertrain. I only know what she has been and what she has lost, and the weight of it is almost crushing.

Victoria Aveyard

#13. Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every President. I saw the figures - 34 out of 44 Presidents have called for a national day of prayer. Some of those who didn't have died in office.

James Dobson