#died

I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished. ↗

— Lena Horne

#been #beginning #day #died #finished

I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time. ↗

— Sam Houston

#after #did #died #doubt #eight

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 Hume

#christ #days #desert #die #died

If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

#beating #boy #care #course #crippled

I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought. ↗

— Janis Ian

#assassinated #died #difficult #everyone #fine

I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

#cried #died #heard #i #johnny

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#american writer #asked #celebration #died #emerson

You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#died #elvis #fat #going #got

I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest. ↗

— Peter Jurasik

#catholic #i #idea #priest #studied

Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo. ↗

— Jacques Verges

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