Wayne Swan Quotes

The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'

I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

I miss my mother very, very much.

As I celebrate life, I can't help but think how young my mom was when she died of a heart attack at 53. My mom didn't get to meet her grandchildren, but I'm determined to watch mine grow up.

I wish my father had lived longer. He died when I was 18.

We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it.

I lost my father when I was 13 years old. He was a great man, my father, and very intelligent. I love him very much. I believe it's very important that parents have a personal connection with their children. It helps kids feel more secure, have a feeling of family, makes them feel loved.

When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, 'I won't ever see my brother again. I won't ever see my mom again.' And it just kind of hits you like that.

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.

It's true you never know the full depth of a parent's touch in your life until they're gone. Even if you cared for them in their old age, there's never a way to prepare yourself for the death of a parent.

It is very painful to talk about my dear friend Rishi Kapoor in 'past tense.'

You're never prepared to lose anybody in your family.

I know the injustice of outliving a child, the pain of a future stolen away, of mourning forever a voice you'll never hear.

It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.

I had never experienced the death of someone close to me until my grandfather passed away.

I lost my girl a couple years back, Aaliyah, in a plane crash. I wasn't expecting that, and also, my mother died, and at the time, my father wasn't in my life; the only person that took care of me was my mom.

When my dad passed, I felt like I had to grow up very quickly.