Anne Murray Quotes

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

My wife was an excellent mother, her loss has left a big void in my son's life, and those are shoes that I cannot fill. The loss of a parent has not been easy on him.

I have a brother and we lost our father when I was 15. And that was a big emotional upheaval in my life.

My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember her. I do remember, though, when it was just my father and me, before he met the woman who would become the mother who raised me, before my younger sister, Gillian. It was just the two of us, and he was my whole world.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.

My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.

The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience.

I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child.

I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss.

Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.

My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.

I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8.

I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.