Jason Chaffetz Quotes

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

When my mother passed away I was 20.

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

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.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

I decided to quit 'Survivor: All-Stars' in order to be closer to my mother, who ended up passing away from breast cancer seven days after I returned home.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

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.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.

The loss of my brother was a huge moment, a life-changer for me.

I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.

When my grandma passed away, the one person I prayed for was my mom. I just hope that she finds peace. I hope she believes in a loving life.

During my grandma's funeral, I looked over once and saw my mom crying, and I felt so bad for her.

I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect it to escalate so rapidly. In my mind, it was like, 'He'll pull through.' When he didn't, I didn't understand. I was 21, and my best friend had died.

My father died when I was 28, and within two-and-a-half years of that, I lost my first son.

My daughter passed away in 2003.

I lost my mom to cancer when I was a kid.

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