Pastoral Resources

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

I've been dying to play.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I am dying of hunger.

With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention.

There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.