"Dad says that everyone invented baklava.â€ It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes. â€œYour father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets."

-- Diana Abu-Jaber

#Memories Quotes #Dad Quotes #Father Quotes

“Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.”
“Now people are really inspired to do a lot, and the fire got lit under our ***** to be more politically aware and be more politically involved in our community and pay more attention to what's going on.”
“Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.”
“There's always a chance that I might not walk away from a racetrack. I don't ever want to think about that, but I'm prepared if something happens. I hope that nothing ever does. That's definitely a risk. My wife understands that. I'm definitely at peace with what God wants me to do. I have a lot of faith in that.”

Source : "A CSJ Conversation with Justin Allgaier". Interview with CSJ, christiansportsjournal.com. March 10, 2017.
“I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.”
“Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.”
“I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.”
“I am visible to Google. I link therefore I am.”

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