'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 CroweDown these mean
streets a man must go who is not himself mean (The Simple Art of Murder)
View quotes by Raymond ChandlerI don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the
streets and frighten the horses.
View quotes by Victor HugoLittle League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the
streets.
View quotes by Yogi BerraThe way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the
streets.
View quotes by John D RockefellerWe live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the
streets - we remember only.
View quotes by Henry MillerThis melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its
streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
View quotes by W B YeatsThe essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on
streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
View quotes by Bill CosbyMy desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports,
streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
View quotes by Fran LebowitzThe
streets were dark with something more than night.
View quotes by Raymond ChandlerIf those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the
streets. We will control ourselves.
View quotes by Howard ZinnFootball is a game designed to keep coal miners off the
streets.
View quotes by Jimmy BreslinIf necessary, I would go out on the
streets and beg rather than send them [his children] to the school next to where I live.
View quotes by Oliver LetwinThe rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and deserted
streets, as a party of three persons sat over their wine, in that stately old pile which once formed the resort of the Irish Members, in College Green, Dublin, and went by the name of Daly's Clubhouse
View quotes by Charles James LeverIt's unnatural for people to run around the city
streets unless they are thieves or victims.
View quotes by Mike RoykoI'd rather walk the
streets of Tokyo naked than wear an iPod.
View quotes by Howard StringerChild welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean
streets and public parks and playgrounds.
View quotes by Marjory DouglasAssault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city
streets.
View quotes by Dianne FeinsteinThe smallest patch of green to arrest the monotony of asphalt and concrete is as important to the value of real estate as
streets, sewers and convenient shopping.
View quotes by James FeltPeople keep on comparing me to Lily Allen but it's probably closer to the sort of
Streets sound.
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