'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 bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheWhere shall we make her grave?
Oh! where the wild flowers wave
In the free air!
When shower and
singing-bird
'Midst the young leaves are heard,
There - lay her there!
View quotes by Felicia HemansRoy Keane's probably the funniest person in the team. In the changing room, he'll say 'watch this' and he'll start humming or singing a song near Pally. Five minutes later Pally will be singing the same song! Never fails that one!
View quotes by Ryan GiggsMy father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffee houses - folk music - then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.
View quotes by David CrosbyThe early bird catches the worm.
View quotes by Anonymous 'Pan, who and what art thou?' [Hook] cried huskily.
'I'm youth, I'm joy,' Peter answered at a venture, 'I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.'
View quotes by Peter PanNo bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
View quotes by William BlakeWhen told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!'
View quotes by Winston ChurchillI know why the caged bird sings! (Sympathy)
View quotes by Paul Lawrence DunbarAnd hear the pleasant cuckoo, loud and long-
The simple bird that thinks two notes a song. (April's Charms)
View quotes by W H DaviesDown in the forest something stirred: It was only the note of a bird.
View quotes by Harold SimpsonPerhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it (A Summer Bird-Cage)
View quotes by Margaret Drabble A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
View quotes by JuvenalThe early bird may get the worm, but it’s the second mouse that gets the cheese.
View quotes by Jeremy PaxmanIf one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
View quotes by Nikita KhrushchevFaith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
View quotes by Rabindranath TagoreA poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
View quotes by Kahlil GibranA wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week,
But I'm damned if I see how the helican. ['The Pelican']
View quotes by Dixon Lanier MerrittLondon is a roost for every bird.
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