"My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet."

-- Clare Bowen

#Beautiful Quotes #Grandmother Quotes #Grandparent Quotes

“I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight.”
“If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.”

Source : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas (2006). “Poems”, Knopf Publishing Group
“Exchanging blows generously, which is not uncommon in some other martial arts, is unthinkable in Shaolin philosophy, because a Shaolin disciple always assumes that an opponent is competent and able to inflict damage with just one blow.”

Source : Wong Kiew Kit (2002). “The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment”, p.73, Tuttle Publishing
“Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“I wish I had more confidence.”
“You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.”
“Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.”
“I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.”

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