The Day My Father Died Quotes

#1. Ever since the day my father died I've understood. So long as the king lives, I will never be free of him.

Laura Thalassa

#2. The old man heard the music of the imperialists issuing from the golden hotel, heavy with the gaiety of despair...

Salman Rushdie

#3. When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who'd just bought two of my books for pounds 500.

Emma Tennant

#4. Largely I write from life ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

David Crosby

#5. I met a girl who sang the blues
and I asked her for some happy news,
but she just smiled and turned away.
And the three men I admire most,
The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost,
They caught the last train to the coast
The day the music died.

Don McLean

#6. I like a little chaos. I think that's really true for my inner Buddha. I think I like a little nutsy. Maybe I can't take total peace.

Meredith Vieira

#7. Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that's impossible.

Robert Bresson

#8. Music is something I couldn't live without. My dad was into music, he played for pleasure - guitar, piano. I started off doing jazz, singing with a lot of fabulous musicians here in London before I went to the States. And I still take piano lessons every Wednesday.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

#9. My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.

Conrad Veidt

#10. He die one day, and then he go above of my head to live with your father." He weared the long hair, and after he died, the first day he come back here for to say hello to the peoples." He nice, the Jesus.

David Sedaris

#11. My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

Kara Swisher

#12. My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse & Hound' magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#13. I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Third, this unitary definition of love includes self-love with love for the other. Since I am human and you are human, to love humans means to love myself as well as you.

M. Scott Peck

#15. I try to play the best I can every time I play. But there's just some folks that seem to draw a little bit of that extra special out of you.

Bobby Keys

#16. 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

#17. I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

John Nettles

#18. In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished ... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

U Thant

#19. My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.

Damon Lindelof

#20. Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

William Gibson

#21. I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

Mariah Carey

#22. After my father died, I learned that when tragedy strikes, you can either open up or shut down. My mother opened up and was not herself for some time. I shut down, and it worked for me. I shut down again on the day of September the eleventh.

H M Naqvi

#23. St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.

Josemaria Escriva

#24. I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died; it was his 45th birthday.

Alan J. Heeger

#25. Even when you're successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic ... So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you're dealing with problems.

Bill Parcells

#26. To be honest Im quite boring I love to go bowling and to the moviesWhen it comes to my wardrobe I think I dress like a 30 year old woman

Selena Gomez

#27. My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.

R. T. Rybak

#28. He's nice enough. He likes dogs." She looked to Penelope. "As does Tommy."
"This is what we've come to? Choosing our potential husbands because they like dogs?

Sarah MacLean

#29. My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

David Ayer