"I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens,"

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Source : "China's first female astronaut shows how 'women hold up half the sky'" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

Liu Yang

#Grateful Quotes #Space Quotes #People Quotes

“With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with a greater degree of honesty than was possible before. In getting older themselves, our adult children may begin to comprehend the burdens and strengths we carried from our own parents.”
“Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.”
“It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.”

Source : Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.285, Akashic Books
“I forgot how it feel like to have the top of my foot hurt so bad from kicking people on the face...”
“Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses.”
“None but the brave deserve the fair.”
“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.”
“To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.”

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