John Connolly Quotes

My mother passed. She passed when I was 10 or 11.

My mom died when I was 11 years old.

My mom died when I was 8.

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

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

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 was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.

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

My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.

Losing a parent is always a terrible thing for anybody. It's no more or no less for me.

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.

Can you imagine, I lost my mother at age six? My childhood ended then.

The Tiger Rising is, again, about a motherless child. His name is Rob Horton. He is dealing with the death of his mother, when he and his father move to a new town. And two things happen the same day that Rob gets sent home. One is he meets a girl named Sistine Bailey, who is what my mother would call "a piece of work," and he finds a real tiger in a cage in the woods behind the motel where he lives with his dad. And that's the story: what happens with the Sistine tiger, the real tiger and Rob's grief.

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

When my mother passed away I was 20.

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

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.

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.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.