'Six months before he died, my grand-father came to Australia to try to explain to me that he was dying. I was a young kid, very much into myself at the time. I was busking on the streets just to make enough money to pay my rent, There was this Japanese restaurant I'd always wanted to eat at but couldn't afford, so I suggested we go there.' It was an unfortunate choice. In Weans' weakened condition, the smell of the rice and soya sauce brought back memories of the Second World War. 'We couldn't have the talk he wanted to,' says Crowe.
'The day he died, I was in the kitchen of a flat in Woollarah, (an eastern suburb of Sydney). 'Suddenly a kookaburra bird flew in the window. It just looked at me. I knew my grandfather had died. I phoned home and my mother confirmed it. 'I insisted the bird was my grandfather's spirit, but my mom would have nothing of it.'
One day last year, Crowe had a dream in which he was holding his mother and she was crying. He phoned home immediately.
'My mother said a woman who had worked closely with my grandfather had come to visit and, without prompting, had told her that on the day my grandfather died a bird had visited her as well. 'Learning this had reduced my mother to tears.'
Crowe says he believes that 'with all this talk of angels, maybe they are just birds sent to us by those who have
crossed over.' Tuesday, March 14, 2000
View quotes by Russell CroweI had
crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
View quotes by Harriet TubmanNo one would have
crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
View quotes by Charles KetteringAll that remains is for a few dots and commas to be
crossed.
View quotes by Mitchell Thomas All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be
crossed.
View quotes by Mitchell ThomasA Frenchwoman, when double-
crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man.
View quotes by Charles BoyerHe
crossed the line between eccentricity and idiocy far too often for someone who was supposed to be running English cricket [on Ted Dexter]
View quotes by Ian BothamFrom the small
crossed window of his room above the stable in the brickyard, Yakov Bok saw people in their long overcoats running somewhere early that morning, everybody in the same direction
View quotes by Bernard MalamudBoatman, come, thy fare receive;
Thrice thy fare I gladly give,
For unknown, unseen by thee,
Spirits twain have
crossed with me
View quotes by Johann UhlandAnthropology has always maintained its dirty little secret of ethnographers who
crossed into territory where their own bodily experiences made traditional ethnographic modes of representation and interpretation obsolete. [Plus points if you understand that]
View quotes by Frank CushingI have no problem with players being combative but there is a line they cannot cross and Santh
crossed it. I hope he learns from his mistake.
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