Kyung-Sook Shin quote: "When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death."

But, Aunt... I don't want to go to the grave site set aside for me a few years ago at the ancestral ...
KYUNG-SOOK SHIN

Did Mother know? That I, too, needed her my entire life?

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KYUNG-SOOK SHIN

I have lived here for so long, and this was the last piece of the puzzle. I really feel that I have ...
TANITH BELBIN

My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I ...
LAILA ALI

Inside me, there is an organ more important than my heart. Although you can't see it, I feel it goin...
HIDEAKI SORACHI

For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke...
JEAN NIDETCH

I lived for you. And I lived for Will, and then I lived for Tessa - and for myself, because I wanted...
CASSANDRA CLARE

I grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar ...
KATORI HALL

Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I live...
JESSICA SIMPSON

There weren't many tough ones in the first period when I didn't feel that comfortable. In the second...
KARI LEHTONEN

We feel it is our time to shine, and now we can make the most of this as we try to qualify for the O...
TANITH BELBIN

I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day ...
EMILY ROSSUM

We're from the even more religious area, Utah Valley, and [I] remember as I grew up parents would mo...
JEPH HOWARD

I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had lef...
JEWELL PARKER RHODES

I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.
RIO FERDINAND

I was born in Northern California and lived there until I was about eight years old. Then my parents...
BONNIE MCKEE

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a par...
BLACK ELK

I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day ...
EMMY ROSSUM

I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.
ANDREW LINCOLN

My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse mys...
AMANDA DONOHOE

From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the str...
ORHAN PAMUK

I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend il...
VIRGIL

I feel good. I feel like I can walk around with my head up and just be proud that I had a great four...
BRIELLE WHITE

I don’t want to love him—this would be so much simpler if I didn’t. But I do.
He’s funn...
RACHEL VINCENT

I saw another student from Spain and I asked if I could go with him, but he said there was not enoug...
ALEX BELDA

Just about anything anybody can use, we give out free from toilet paper on up. I feel like God sent ...
MAGGIE WHITE

I am very thankful that I have lived the life I have lived. I am thankful for my Graves' disease...
GAIL DEVERS

I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada...
T. J. PERKINS

I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the eart...
BENITO PEREZ GALDOS

I feel I had to grow up fast. When I was younger, my mom would go out and leave me by myself. When I...
DANIELLE JONES

I would worship the ground you walk on, Audrey, if you only lived in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER

I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business to...
P. J. O'ROURKE

I wasn't aggressive enough in the first set, so after that, I told myself to hang in there and wait ...
DANIELA HANTUCHOVA

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Losing Sarah and my boy was the hardest thing I've ever lived through. But even then, you see, I kne...
JENNIFER ASHLEY

Really? If I could hate my trainer? That would be ideal. I'd prefer to despise this person with the ...
JEN LANCASTER

Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in....
TOM CRUISE

But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love...
NANCY KERRIGAN

I Feel like a prison holding myself, bounded by the judgements of people I care and chained by the r...
AKSHAY VASU

I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I could go o...
PAUL AUSTER

I was shocked to be threatened by people from the same place I had lived in for so many years.
HUSSEIN ALWAN

Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I...
IF I WAKE

I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
IF I WAKE

You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson...
IF I WAKE

I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE

She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
IF I WAKE

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I ...
SIDNEY POITIER

It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. A...
NEIL GAIMAN

I could think, write or tell, instead I Lived and Created Myself!
RAMANA PEMMARAJU

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DAVID A. ADLER

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TRACEY GOLD

I love living in England. I feel comfortable and safe here. I want my family to grow up here.
MADONNA

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM

Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT

With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON

I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS

My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS

My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS

I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS

You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS

It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS

I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS

People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS

Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS

When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death.

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When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death.

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