My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience. Votes: 1
As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it. Votes: 1
My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss of a loved one to cancer. I wrote my book 'Gracefully Gone' about my father's fight and my struggle growing up with an ill parent. I wrote it to help others know they are not alone in this all-too-often insurmountable war against cancer. Votes: 1
A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion. Votes: 0
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Votes: 4 Martin Luther King, Jr.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. Votes: 3 Henry Ward Beecher