Quotations
Names:
Michael Holding
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
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On going blonde for the 'Scooby Doo' film: It's a pain in the ass. I never thought I would ever use terms like 'My roots!' Or 'My dye job!' or 'My colour's not holding.'
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You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
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The bowler is Holding, the batsmen's Willey - (unfortunate description of the cricketing action!)
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Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
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You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
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I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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Our favourite holding period is forever.
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Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
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Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.
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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
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What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
View quotes by Richard J Daley
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