There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he on day passed away, His insurance was denied, For since he never really lived, They claimed he never really died. (Anonymous poem)
We actually grew closer as friends years later when we started doing personal appearances together. I stayed in touch with Andy [Griffith] and Don [Knotts] until they passed away.
My belief also is that Marilyn Monroe passed away long before she should have left us.
No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.
Listen with your heart, you will understand.
After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.
Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.
When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work with before he passed away, but Richard Avedon was utterly genius and creatively brilliant.
I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.
I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.
The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away and the paradise which is yet to come.
When my mother passed away I was 20.
In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent Prouvé, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away. So it's retrospective, I'm looking back.
And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too.
When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.
My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you. She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.
The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.