Look at me, I'm getting defensive about something that happened so many years ago, somebody said. I'll have to find out who that was and if he's still alive.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In my father's later years he asked several times that I remember him the way I knew him. He said that after his death, people would talk. They would say 'things' about him and he wouldn't be there to defend himself.
I just didn't want to admit that he was dead.
There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.
Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin.