"As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full."

-- Azzedine Alaia

#Cousin Quotes #Children Quotes #Grandmother Quotes

“I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.”

Source : "Remembering Islamic Feminist Fatema Mernissi". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 10, 2015.
“The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg [war crime trials], we're doomed to have it repeated.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.”

Source : Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.138, University of Chicago Press
“My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My first grandmother passed away from bone cancer when I was about 10. It was really horrible. I remember the whole process like it was yesterday.”
“A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.”

Source : "Truth in Oxiana". Article by Tom Bissell, www.worldhum.com. February 15, 2006.
“The relationship I have with my mother now, and photographing her in front of the grave, it opens up discussions, and dealings with the conversations with my mother about, when I was little, how we lived and about suicide and talking about it, so it's something positive, it brought us more together, because people might never discuss that. Some families never go near certain subjects because it's too hurtful or too close or too dangerous. But within doing these photographs, I also wanted to open up a conversation with her about certain things about life.”
“We don't know if we're dancing on the show until a couple of days before the show starts, let alone who their partners are before they meet them.”
“Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.”

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