A-Z Blogging Challenge "Y"

Hi and welcome to my site!

As a very young girl I lived with my paternal grandmother for three formative years. Being an enthusiastic teacher and lover of words, she invariably had quotations written all over the house... literally. On the backs of cupboard doors, on calendars, napkins or wherever she happened to be.  With this in mind I am finding the authors, in alphabetical sequence, of many of her favorite quotations and am adding some of those that are special to my family as well.  Hope you enjoy!




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William Butler Yeats ( 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature,as the first Irishman so honoured for what the Nobel Committee  described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Being a new blogger, this  Yeats quote is  my salute to those I have already "met" and those that I hope to "meet"!!

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

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 Neil Percival Young, (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation.
Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Sills, and Richie Furay , and later joined  Crosby ,Stills &  Nash  as a fourth member in 1969. He has been inducted into the Hall of Fame twice: first as a solo artist in 1995, and second as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997.

 As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more. 
 

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

A-Z Blogging Challenge -"X"

Hi and welcome to my site!

As a very young girl I lived with my paternal grandmother for three formative years. Being an enthusiastic teacher and lover of words, she invariably had quotations written all over the house... literally. On the backs of cupboard doors, on calendars, napkins or wherever she happened to be.  With this in mind I am finding the authors, in alphabetical sequence, of many of her favorite quotations and am adding some of those that are special to my family as well.  Hope you enjoy!





  OK, Fellow Bloggers,  I am really starting to feel "the burn" as I push toward the finish line. Is anyone else there with me??         
                               
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Malcolm X ( May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. Detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, antisemitism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.




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Xuē Xīnrán pen name Xinran, born inBeijing in 1958 is a British-Chinese journalist, broadcaster and writer.
In the late 1980s, she began working for Chinese Radio and went on to become one of China's most successful journalists. In 1997 she moved to London where she initially worked as cleaner.In London, she began work on her seminal book about Chinese women's lives The Good Women of China, a memoir relating many of the stories she heard while hosting her radio show ("Words on the Night Breeze") in China. The book is a candid revelation of many Chinese women's thoughts and experiences that took place both during and after the Cultural Revolution when Chairman Mao and Communism ruled the land. The book was published in 2002 and has been translated into over thirty languages.



“No one likes crying, but tears water our souls.”
― Xinran, Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet