"Being Chinese immigrants in the United States, it was important for my parents to maintain ties that went back a long time. They led by example. My dad didn't bring his work pressures home. We were always aware of them and would go as kids to his office and run around. But when he came home, he was able to leave things behind, at least from our perspective, and focus on us."

-- Chien Chung Pei

#Fathers Day Quotes #Running Quotes #Dad Quotes

“I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed into the same person, really.”
“Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.”
“In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things. To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.”
“The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.”
“Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.”
“A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.”
“If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.”

Source : "At the Jazz Corner of the World". Live album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1959.
“Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.”

Source : Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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