Died Quotes

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.
Frederic William Farrar

Great, Men, Father

What millions died that Caesar might be great!
Thomas Campbell

Great, Might, Millions

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.
Michael Baden

Before, After, Whether

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
Carl Clinton Van Doren

Life, Great, Power

She died praying that she might die.
Mary Chesnut

Die, She, Might

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.
Graham Kennedy

Mother, Night, Jokes

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.
William Kunstler

Down, Young, Dream

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.
Dorothy Allison

Women, Movement, Hadn

I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
Narada Michael Walden

School, Wanted, Year

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

Mother, Father, Taken

If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
I. F. Stone

God, Doubt, Trying

It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.
Eric Ladin

Funny, Home, Death

It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.
Caryl Chessman

Hope, Fear, Able

Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.
Thomas G. Stemberg

Life, Time, Father

My friend's granddad died of prostate cancer and it had a profound effect on me. So when I was presented with the opportunity to speak out, I had to take it. This is a life threatening issue for men; it happens every day. The more you know, the better your chances are of dealing with it if the worst were to happen.
Tristan Wilds

Life, Men, Friend

When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.
Paula Yates

Beyond, Grief, Edge

Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'
Nicholas M. Butler

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.
Mikhail Prokhorov

Family, Business, Parents

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.
Peaches Geldof

Mother, Hard, Remember

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.
William Lilly

Age, Mother, Year

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.
Sonia Braga

Family, Mother, Father

Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier.
John Coleman

Today, Heart, End

Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases.
Rebecca Skloot

Pain, Black, Same

This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.
Steve Mariucci

Different, Before, Big

But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.
Joseph C. Lincoln

Done, Away, Fishing

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.
Saoirse Ronan

Child, Dead, Prefer

I thought it was terrible. I don't know who to believe. Williams was very loyal and honest. Nobody could ever say different. Sometimes, that got him into a lot of trouble. But after he died and they cut his head off, that made me sick.
Curt Gowdy

Him, Different, Thought

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.
Luther Vandross

Lost, Said, Fat

It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.
Lesley-Anne Down

Old, She, Cancer

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

Father, Old, Hearing

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