"If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die."

--

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

F. Murray Abraham

#Children Quotes #Kids Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.”
“If our Lord ascends up to Heaven, ascend with Him. Be one of those angels who escort Him, or one of those who receive Him. Bid the gates be lifted up (cf. Ps. 24:7, 10), or be made higher, that they may receive Him, exalted after His Passion. Answer to those who are in doubt because He bears up with Him His body and the tokens of His Passion, which He had not when He came down, and who therefore inquire, 'Who is this King of Glory?' that it is the Lord strong and mighty, as in all things that He has done from time to time and does, so now in His battle and triumph for the sake of Mankind.”
“I don't know if I really watched any Disney animation as a kid.”
“Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.”

Source : From a lecture of journalism at the University of Turin, "La Stampa" Newspaper, April 14, 2009.
“I'll miss Hollywood. Of the twenty friends I thought I had, I'll miss the six I really had.”
“People loose tension when they run. The feeling of self respect will almost always increase. You accept yourself a little more.”
“...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having. The consumer is right-there is pleasure to be had in good things, a sacred and almost unspeakable pleasure, but the consumer wrongly thinks that one finds this pleasure by having more and more possessions instead of possessing them more truly through grateful contemplation. And here we are, living in an economy that perpetuates this tragedy.”
“There were a few verses that I wrote literally on the spot. But the concept was there. It's about being in your own world musically and waking up in the morning and walking outside and being consumed by everything around you. Just being aware of the good things in art and music and life. It's also about how the world is at a boiling point, in a way.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

You may also like:

Adrien Brody
Actor
Bill Murray
Actor
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Film actress
Mathieu Amalric
Film actor
Milos Forman
Film director
Ralph Fiennes
Actor
Robert Loggia
Actor
Steven Bauer
Actor
Willem Dafoe
Voice Actor