"When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him."

-- Anthony Bourdain

#Father Quotes #Book Quotes #Oysters Quotes

“Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.”
“My forte was the middlegame. I had a good feeling for the critical moments of the play. This undoubtedly compensated for my lack of opening preparation and, possibly, not altogether perfect play in the endgame. In my games things often did not reach the endgame!”
“There are so many reasons, but a big reason is that the literary world is simply too white. When there are more professors of color being employed by these institutions maybe there will be some change in the student populations.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.”

Source : Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 25 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado
“In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.”
“What a subtle, treacherous thing it was to let yourself go that way! Because once you've started it was terribly difficult to stop; soon you were saying "I'm sorry, of course you're right", and "Whatever you think is best", and "you're the most wonderful and valuable thing int he world", and the next thing you knew all honesty, all truth, was as far away and glimmering, as hopelessly unattainable as the world of the golden people.”
“I have a pretty lousy voice.”
“My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.”

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