Gordon Lightfoot Quotes

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.

The loss of my father will always sting. But now, everything that I do is in honor of him and celebrates his life.

It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.

I would like America to remember those who have served and those that we've lost and their families.

She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.

The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.

I'll never forget the first time I saw someone who had died. It was my grandfather. And I knelt next to his coffin. And all I could do was eye level was look at his hands. They were enormous hands. And all I could think was, 'Those hands dug freedom for me.'

Your father has to die, better he dies in your arms.

I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family.

It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

When Dad died in 1998, it really hit my confidence - he'd helped me write and he thought I was really funny, but since he'd died I didn't feel right. And it felt like no one but me even remembered him.

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

My sister Edith died at the age of 43. She was the youngest sister and the funniest. I had to harrumph and snort a few times to stop the weeping.

The saddest moment as Prime Minister is writing letters to families who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan or those who we have tried to help in hostage situations but it hasn't worked out.

I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

I very much loved my late wife, Diana Joy Colbert, and I'd rather hold onto what I can.