Parents Passed Away Quotes

#1. After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. Both parents passed away of the Gnats on their farm out in the wilds, sir, and he was raised by peas.' 'Surely you mean on peas, Mr Groat?' 'By peas, sir

Terry Pratchett

#3. Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of ... I lost it when my parents passed away.

Adam Beach

#4. After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves.

Twyla Tharp

#5. Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Andy Rooney

#6. It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

John McEnroe

#7. I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.

Elmore Leonard

#8. Michael and I had great role models. Though his father has passed away, his parents had an amazingly strong marriage, as do mine. Both weathered really tough times. For us it has been normal to stay together through difficulties. We grew up witnessing that firsthand.

Tracy Pollan

#9. My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

Paul Rudd

#10. World is so beautiful, but alas! There are so many assholes.

M.F. Moonzajer

#11. The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

Augustus William Hare

#12. Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.

Christina Stead

#13. My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

Keegan-Michael Key

#14. Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.

Brandi Chastain

#15. I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

Dane Cook

#16. Ruins he goes daily to look in are each a sermon on vanity.

Thomas Pynchon