Leandra Medine Quotes

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.

What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time ago, before my mama did.

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

Well, my mother, I knew until I was 13. She died when I was 13.

When I was younger, I had so many people in my family die. In my mind, heaven was as physical a place as home or school, and I knew that everyone I loved was together, enormously happy, and watching over me and awaiting my coming to this extraordinary place.

Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people and instantly know them. My grandmother and I had that. The first time my heart was broken was when my grandmother passed away. I was twenty-one.

Sadly, my father died before I graduated, so he didn't see any of the success at all.

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

My grandma was really sick when I was working on 'Sin Nombre' and eventually died that summer when we were finishing the film. But I was able to bring an unfinished version of the film for her to watch.

My mom died when I was 8.

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.

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.'

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.

I lost my brother in a car wreck when I was 14 years old. When I decided I wanted to be a country singer, my dad always told me, 'Son, you should write a song about your brother.'

Papa died when he was 77.

Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I'm older of something about her.

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes, eyes that had not opened for many, many days, and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.