#ura

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #ura




Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.


Gay Talese


#lot #me #people #restaurants #wonderful

These days I live in a magical little village on Dartmoor in Devon, England, and my "special spot" is a moss-covered rock in a circle of trees in the woods behind my house. I often go into the woods, or walk through the fields and hills nearby, when I need inspiration, or to work out a plot problem, or come up with an idea. I think better on my feet, particularly when there is beautiful countryside around me and a dog at my side. When I was younger and lived in big cities, I had special places there too. There's magic everywhere, if you look.


Terri Windling


#get-away #inspirational #nature #rural-setting #urban-setting

It's a success story," said Chanu, exercising his shoulders. "But behind every story of immigration success there lies a deeper tragedy." Kindly explain this tragedy." I'm talking about the clash between Western values and our own. I'm talking about the struggle to assimilate and the need to preserve one's identity and heritage. I'm talking about children who don't know what their identity is. I'm talking about the feelings of alienation engendered by a society where racism is prevalent. I'm talking about the terrific struggle to preserve one's own sanity while striving to achieve the best for one's family. I'm talking--" p. 88


Monica Ali


#family

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.


Arthur Erickson


#achilles heel #americas #confidence #cultural #heel

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.


Anatole France


#gives #good #life #owe #pity

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.


Wallace Stevens


#equivalent #observation #thinking

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.


Anatole France


#afterwards #art #awakening #curiosity #minds

There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far.


Jodi Picoult


#change

My restaurant, Tex Wasabi's, we have a whole 'Minute to Win It' challenge going on on Sundays already. The show hasn't even aired and they're already doing challenges where people are coming and participating. I think it's going to take over.


Guy Fieri


#already #challenge #challenges #coming #doing

I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.


Michael J. Fox


#i #look #natural #natural state #opportunities