Quotes:'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 CroweThe NRA
says 'guns don't kill people, people do.' But I think that the gun helps. You know? I think it helps. I think that if you just walked around going 'Bang!' you wouldn't kill too many people would you? You'd have to be really dogdy on the heart for that to work. I think that people should just try that. Walk around going 'BANG, BANG, BOOM, RATTA TAT, BOOM, RATTA TAT, BOOM!' I think that they should just try it.
View quotes by Eddie IzzardWhen people wear shoes that don't fit them, it
says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
View quotes by Billy Bob ThorntonI don't want children lookin' at me like some kind of gangster. I want them to see someone who
says: 'don't be promiscuous, have safe sex, don't do drugs and definitely don't carry guns.'
View quotes by Mary J BligeI think computer viruses should count as life. I think it
says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
View quotes by Stephen HawkingWhat is a rebel? A man who
says no.
View quotes by Albert CamusI have often thought,
says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.
View quotes by Joseph Addison'Nietzsche
says that we will live the same life over and over again... oh god, I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.' (Hannah and Her Sisters)
View quotes by Woody AllenIn all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of libery (Es
says, Moral, Political and Literary)
View quotes by David HumeI believe there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those doing the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I dont think it will be based on the colour of the skinYou're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or
says it.
View quotes by Malcom X'Inconsistency is my very essence,'
says the wheel.
Raise yourself upon my spokes if you wish... but don't complain when you are plunged back down' - comparing life to a great wheel
View quotes by BoethiusEvery time a child
says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
View quotes by J M BarrieBeauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. (Es
says, Moral, Political and Literary)
View quotes by David HumeFaithless is he that
says farewell when the road darkens.
View quotes by J R R TolkienThe great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact (Collected Es
says)
View quotes by Thomas HuxleyIt is now several months since I promised to give you my reasons for preferring the Bible as a schoolbook to all other compositions. Before I state my arguments, I shall assume the five following propositions:
1 . That Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and that in proportion as mankind adopts its principles and obeys its precepts they will be wise and happy.
2. That a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way.
3. That the Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
4. That knowledge is most durable, and religious instruction most useful, when imparted in early life.
5. That the Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life.
- Benjamin Rush, Es
says, pp. 93-113, 'A Defence of the Use of the Bible as a School Book'.
View quotes by Benjamin RushSince a politician never believes what he
says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
View quotes by Charles De GaulleAs civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines (Es
says Contributed to the Edinburgh Review 1843)
View quotes by Thomas BabingtonNaturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he
says to them..'If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.'
View quotes by Friedrich EngelsThe moment comes when a character does or
says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.
View quotes by Graham GreeneThe ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. (Es
says, 1891)
View quotes by Herbert SpencerA stupid man's report of what a clever man
says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
View quotes by Bertrand RussellAs soon as any man
says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be given up for lost.
View quotes by Jean Jacques RousseauIn the Bible it
says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
View quotes by Hilary ClintonVoters quickly forget what a man
says.
View quotes by Richard NixonIf an elderly but distinguished scientist
says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he
says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.
View quotes by Arthur C ClarkeAs the old proverb
says 'Like readily consorts with like.'
View quotes by CiceroThe man who
says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
View quotes by Laurence PeterHe who
says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
View quotes by George BerkeleyWhen an Italian
says it's pasta I check under the sauce to make sure. They are innovators of the smokescreen.
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