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 s
uggested 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
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uggle.
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uggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.
View quotes by Alyssa Milano"I have never sm
uggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?"
View quotes by John SteinbeckAnyone who has ever str
uggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
View quotes by James BaldwinWho knows for what we live, str
uggle and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our str
uggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
View quotes by Alan PatonSo, I am a b*stard, and the English are b*stards. But the really bad news is that you are too. My vision of Europe would be Europe of b*stards for whom the question of legitimacy was a site of endless str
uggle and contestation...
View quotes by Simon CritchleyLife for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual str
uggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself... And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
View quotes by Virginia Woolf'Strength does not come from winning. Your str
uggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.'
View quotes by Arnold SchwarzeneggerIt is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great r
ugged power that you are a part of.
View quotes by Emily CarrWhen you go home, tell them of us and say,
'For your tomorrows these gave their today'.
(Inscriptions S
uggested for War Memorials 1919)
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uggle to get that one through (on the South Africa policy of 'no women, no alcohol')
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The less we love her, sooth to say-
She stoops, she falls, her str
uggling ceases;
Caught fast, she cannot get away.
(Eugene Onegin)
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uggests forms of bias
View quotes by Diane B SchulderSing, my tongue, of the battle in the glorious str
uggle
View quotes by Venantius FortunatusThe perpetual str
uggle for room and food.
View quotes by T R MalthusI s
uggested [in 1966] that we use the panther as our symbol and call our political vehicle the Black Panther Party. The panther is a fierce animal, but he will not attack until he is backed into a corner; then he will strike out. (Revolutionary Suicide)
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uggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?
View quotes by Germaine GreerEverything you've learned in school as 'obvious' becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a s
uggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
View quotes by R Buckminster FullerThere is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from str
uggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'
View quotes by William Ralph IngeIf you are a dog and your owner s
uggests that you wear a sweater, s
uggest that he wear a tail.
View quotes by Fran LebowitzThe evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Atlas Shr
ugged
View quotes by Ayn RandJim Courier did a great job of showing the rest what is possible. He could only hit forehands, but almost every one could have been a winner. But Jim str
uggled when others learned to hit the ball just as hard. Many look at Andy (Roddick) as being a similar animal, and it could well be in a few years everybody hits the ball as hard as him.
View quotes by Todd MartinMyths and creeds are heroic str
uggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
View quotes by Ansel Adams Did you ever notice that the first piece of l
uggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
View quotes by Erma BombeckIt is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like j
ugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
View quotes by Kenneth TynanThe hardest str
uggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
View quotes by Robert SchullerThe world cannot be governed without j
uggling.
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uggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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uggle were perhaps to win it without honour. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to str
uggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
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