There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
Bill Bradley

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

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.
Desmond Llewelyn

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.
Clive Barker

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

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

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffer

Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.
Junipero Serra

Seven years is a long time, and he was there for me, when my mum died. He was very compassionate at that time. I couldn't have found anyone better in that situation.
Mary Elizabeth Donaldson

I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact.
Eric McCormack

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
Basil C. Hume

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.
Edward Lear

I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.
Stephen Dunn

But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.
George C. Scott

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.
Susan Oliver

What millions died that Caesar might be great!
Thomas Campbell

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
Marion Berry

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

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

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.
King George V