Tomonori Yamashita Quotes & Sayings

But I meant every word. I'd done my daughters no favors hiding behind feminine virtues, allowing men to do as they pleased with little more than sarcasm and secrecy for protest. Seeing my son half-dead, something changed in me - my willingness to obey, my willingness to accept, to let the men handle it was gone. When — Stephanie Dray

I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another. — Queen Latifah

Feeling the Wind in Your Hair

The peak of the cliff sits tantalizingly close. Your hands rest on your knees as you gasp, willing more oxygen into your lungs. You look back with pride down the way you've come. Just a little farther and you'll be there. Your energy now partially restored, you step on and on. The light wind lifts the closer you get to the peak. A plateau soon falls away abruptly down to the sea, and the sweeping air collects and whips into your face. The view is sublime but the payoff comes as you stand--arms stretched wide in triumph--with your eyes closed as the raging wind buffets your face. This wind, collected and grown above oceans, flitting and crashing its way across the waves, finally reaches the shore and clasps itself around you in a fleeting embrace. The crack of its passing meets your ears and slowly it absorbs you--a streaming current of air caressing your rejoicing face. — Dan Kieran

A revolutionary should neither look or act like one to get ahead in Canada. — Preston Manning

I think it's just important to be always bouncing between TV and theater, and hopefully I'll get to do movies at some point. — Katie Lowes

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. — Charles Caleb Colton

This is music's most spectacular conjuring trick. Far from dying, it is in a perpetual state of rebirth. — Howard Goodall

I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little. — Natalie Cole

Usha had said that males were not all that different, just bigger outside to make up for what they lacked within. — Joan Slonczewski

The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of a happy childhood, can restore vitality and creativity if a person is able to experience that he was never loved as a child for what he was, but for his achievements, success and good qualities. And that he sacrificed his childhood for this love, this will shake him very deeply. — Alice Miller