#died

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#am #confidently #died #disease #gout

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#assistant #been #choose #could #died

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe. ↗

— Bob Taft

#day #died #homeland #innocence #knew

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#advanced age #after #age #apparently #birth

I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#i #important #me #never #studied

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us. ↗

— Sonia Braga

#died #family #father #grew #i

The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It's such a pleasure to see how they've embodied the characters and brought them to life. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#across #board #brought #cast #characters

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

— Desmond Dekker

#father #ill #mary #me #mother

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died. ↗

— Luther Vandross

#fat #i #larger #lost #now

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. ↗

— Karl von Frisch

#exams #faculty #first #i #munich