"My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do."

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Source : "Nik Wallenda finishes high-wire act that killed great-grandfather" by Kelly Daniel, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2011.

Nik Wallenda

#Inspiration Quotes #Hero Quotes #Grandfather Quotes

“I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.”
“Oh, sunshine, I whisper and smile gently. Haven't you figured out that I'm completely in love with you?”
“I am not dealing with footballers, I am dealing with people. They have fears and worry about failing and making fools of themselves in front of 80,000 people. I have to make them see that without each other they are nothing.”
“The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.”
“We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.”
“Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel, that life without lying is an impossibility, at least don't lie about the amount of pain likely to result from a surgical procedure, or about the taste of some medicine. If you know that something to be done will hurt, say so; if a mixture to be swallowed is unpleasant, say so. If you deceive a child once in such matters, do not imagine that it will trust you again. You do not deserve trust, and you will not get it.”
“The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.”
“For most of my life, I've been, â€˜Hey, I'm not into it, but I respect your right to believe whatever you want'. But as time goes on, weirdly, I'm growing less liberal. I'm more like, 'No, religion is ruining the world, you need to stop!â€™”

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