I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.
Miroslav Vitous

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.
Solomon Ortiz

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.
Laurence Housman

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
Martha Gellhorn

Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.
David Wilkerson

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
Pete Townshend

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.
Richard Marx

I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.
Lizzie Andrew Borden

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.
Jung Chang

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.
Sophie Marceau

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.
Charles Rangel

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.
Peter Straub

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar

In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
Brion James

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.
Bob Taft

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.
Sarah Polley

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
Ronald Fisher

When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.
Maurice Gibb

I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
Victoria Jackson

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.
Ben Shahn