#died

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#babies #best #bringing #children #come

My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life. ↗

— Tammy Duckworth

#died #during #experience #had #i

He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#the-woman-who-died-a-lot #thursday-next #life

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected. ↗

— Louise Brown

#bought #decided #fiction #figured #formula

...Sirius had never kept him waiting before...Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him...If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back...That he really was... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death #depressing #harry-potter #j-k-rowling #sad

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. ↗

— Julien Benda

#died #history #jesus #jesus christ #smile

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor. ↗

— Chris Burke

#because #i #james #just #like

My dreams died nine months before I was born
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— Jarod Kintz

#born #death #died #dreams #death

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas. ↗

— George Weah

#brown #chicken #christmas #could #died

You should have died when I killed you. ↗

— John le Carre

#i #killed #should #you