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My father would pick me up and hold me high in the air. He dominated my life as long as he lived, an... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Someone gave it to Aunt Mabel, who died in 1918, and then Grandma got it. She was about 13 years old...
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When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills. KATE CHOPIN We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year.
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EVE ARDEN
I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to ... ISABEL ALLENDE My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm lef...
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Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone... HARUKI MURAKAMI She had the biggest heart. She was the most caring person you could ever meet.
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While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucil... BILL MURRAY 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissi...
BARBARA COONEY I am especially grateful for the memory of my grandmother, Maria Petrovna, who was the family's good...
ANDREI SAKHAROV
My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just h... TAMMY DUCKWORTH I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my gra...
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My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the differ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS
I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old.... RON WHITE
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My old man's a white old manAnd my old mother's black.
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My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, an... DENIS JOHNSON My grandmother used to make beautiful quilts. I loved to help her pick out the colors. She taught me...
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The first time you kissed me? That moment when your lips touched mine? You stole a piece of my heart... COLLEEN HOOVER
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(after asking Christ into his heart) I waited. And then, true to His promise, He came into my heart ... LOUIS ZAMPERINI She was kind of the question mark. She decided she missed it, so she came to me right after Christma...
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Grandmam, as I have seen in looking back, was the decider of my fate. She shaped my life, without of... WENDELL BERRY Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
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What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing... ALICE MUNRO Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn...
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My driving habits are so ingrained that the driving examiner would fail me in the first mile. That&#... JASPER CARROTT
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Of all the girls that are so smart / There's none like pretty Sally, / She is the darling of my hear... HENRY CAREY I don't think there's anybody he hasn't helped. Little girls, 2 and 3 years old, come in and peak ar...
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And she kissed me. It was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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